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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 11:19:48 -0400 (EDT), John Kim wrote: >On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Bob Garagliano wrote: > >> I don't mind the HTML as much as I mind excessive quoting. That has been >> quite excessive here of late. > >Enough has probably been said on this, but I'll toss in my >2 cents since I tend to do more answering than asking on this >list. > >My mail program can't view HTML attachments. The mail program >that comes with Microsoft Internet Explorer claims to send a >text version (labeled ASCII) and an HTML version (labeled HTML). >The ASCII version isn't - I suspect it includes some binary >characters which pine doesn't like and I end up with an "unable >to view non-ASCII text" error. > >The end result is that I don't bother reading any messages that >come through formatted like that. I just delete them rather >than go through the gymnastics of saving it to a file and >viewing it later. Every once in a while I'll send a message >telling people about the problem (this is one of them :-). It's >up to them to configure their mail program to send plain text >only. If they don't/can't, I don't read their messages, and >hence don't answer their questions. > >If they do get it configured correctly, I'd also recommend they >send a message to Microsoft asking to fix this bug (how hard can >ASCII be?), and perhaps having MS IE default to sending plain >text instead of the weird text/HTML hybrid. > I completely agree, and basically this is all I'm asking. Okay, now let's get back to ThinkPad relevant stuff... :) -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my P75 Server running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 6 There are 25 Processes with 89 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 21h 55m 29s 226ms.