Jon,
> is this what you mean? it looks like gobbley gook. i tried the link
> and googled e-mail program, and understood about half of what i read.
> i still have no idea what e-mail program i use...
For what it's worth, here's a picture of what the text portion of the
email quoted above looks like in Apple's Mail application:
http://tinyurl.com/6h4bf3
As you can see, there s a lot less gobbledygook: those solid lines
down the left side show how deeply "nested" are the quotes in the
message.
This is not to say it's perfect, by any stretch of the imagination:
notice how the paragraph after the link to the jargon file is all
messed up... Unfortunately, computers are still in rather a primitive
state. Email especially so, because it's one of the oldest parts of
the Internet, and consequently one of the most "conservative". Things
in email work the way they do (which is to say _pretty_ well, but
still kind of clunky) because of the need for "backwards
compatibility" to ensure that the widest possible range of ancient,
old programs out there can talk to the widest possible range of shiny,
new ones.
If you have the patience for it, I think you'll be pleased with the
results you get by learning how to use the mail program on your
Macintosh, despite your bad history with it. I don't know what version
of Macintosh you have, but any relatively recent (after 2004 or so)
machine should have a modern-enough version to serve you well.
I am a complete Mac Addict, so I'm using the very latest version of
the Macintosh operating system (that's what "OS X" is), called
Leopard, with all of its up-to-date-itude.
Dave
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