On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Tony LaFemina wrote:
> Seriously though! For those of you who don't like HTML in their e-mail. > Would you rather copy and paste a web address rather than click it? Or There's an unwritten standard for this. In emails you always specify a url fully. ie) you don't do www.cnn.com, you do http://www.cnn.com/ Then the agent recognises this and it can be clicked upon. Or in some OSes I can select that and it'll ask if I want to open it. > in the case of an e-mail address, would you rather copy an e-mail > address from the e-mail, open your mail program, click the button for > new mail, then paste it into the To box, and then continue with typing > your reply, or clicking the e-mail address in the e-mail you received > and letting the link do everything else. I copy and paste :) I hate websites that don't print an email address but instead have a 'click-here' button that hides the actual email address. Mainly because I never have a mail agent configured on my web viewing machine. > It seems you might be confusing > HTML with graphics. I find that annoying too. Which is often what you get. Number of emails I get with reams of css at the top is laughable :) At least i assume they'[re laughable, I've never had the courage to read them. > I think progress is in the other direction. Nobody said it was all going > to be peaches and cream! Give it time. Something new is just around the > corner. Things will improve I'm sure. I may sound like I'm some stick in the mud, do it the old way user, but I'm not happy to have to go copy and pasting things all the time. However, I am happy that my email is not read by the admin and stored for future legal use against me. I view it over an encrypted link. I also never run the risk of an email virus. ISPs are storing my email, but they've got little reason to get legal on me. If you prefer to exist under the 'police state' of your mail system, and to be happy to have to deal with all that shoddy anti-virus software to get clickable links, then I'm impressed at your courage :) So you see, us non-html users do have our reasons :) [Oh, another one is that I can check my email from any computer with the exception of an OS 9 or Win 3.11 machine no matter where I am. Without whoring myself out to a webmail system. Very useful when I was moving every 6 months for a few years]. What I probably need to do is figure out how to hook w3m or links into pine or mutt, so I get the best of both worlds :) Except for the pictures. Just a view from the other side of the fence. Hen The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
