[WinMac] HTML Mail (was Re: Want to unsubscribe?)

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 21:48:02 -0400

At 6:56 PM +0200 10/23/99, Marc Stibane wrote:
>Since this list seems to become a printer problem list, I tend to
>unsubscribe, too. But what bugs me most, is the use of HTML in mails.
>Microsoft violated the netiquette with making HTML mails the default in
>OE, and the innocent OE users seem to LIKE that feature, not knowing that
>they are boring the more experienced and blame themselves as newbies.

        You want to blame someone for HTML mail - blame Netscape who
invented the silly thing when there were too lazy to properly
implement MIME.

Leonard

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