>Good example: Hotmail, which was recently
>purchased by Microsoft for nearly half a billion
>dollars and which currently boasts in the
>neighborhood of 12 million subscribers. Hotmail is
>a full-fledged HTML mail reader.
And is a domain currently filtered from at least one list I run.
>are very mainstream these days, and cost no more
>than plain text mail readers. Hotmail is free and
>HTML mail and news readers will be built into
>Windows 98.
Clue: Not everyone uses Windows.
>Individuals, mailing lists and workgroups should
>be free to use plain text mail or HTML plus plain
>text mail as they see fit. It's a free country.
That's right:
taboo_body << END
/^Content\-Type:\s+text\/html/i
END
Works just fine for me.
>In the long run, clearly HTML/XML mail will become
>the dominant standard since it is a richer, more
>comprehensive, more expressive and more useful
>medium, one which includes plain text, enhanced
>text and any complex combination of media one can
>imagine.
If I might be so blunt: Horse Manure. You can wrap drivel in all the HTML
you want, and it's still drivel.
Tom Coradeschi, Info-LabVIEW List Maintainer
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