> Hi Ian, on Sun, 23 Jan 00 at 11:43:04 you wrote...
>
> >Hi. Does anyone know how to get tmessages like the one below to
> >appear as the sender intended, rather than as MD2 prints it for me
> >with all the tags etc shown as text?
>
> <snip HTML mail>
>
> The sender shouldn't be sending mail in HTML format. In this case it
> looks like spam anyway but there are plenty of clueless people around
> sending mail in HTML too.
Unfortunately quite a lot of people send in HTML format. The beauty of
email is its simplicity - if you want formatting use *this* or _this_
or /this/ etc. Anything more complex makes the message longer and thus
takes longer to send and receive - which for email is a bad thing.
The primary point of email is fast accurate data transmission and HTML
serves to detract from this.
However for web browsing and manuals HTML (or PDF) makes perfect
sense for obvious reasons and as a result it is sometimes necessary to
send whole HTML files (eg: when sending a preview version of a website
- minus graphics for someone's opinion).
If you must view the doc "as intended" then save out the part(s) of
the message in Microdot 2 and give them .html suffixes to remind you
what they are. Then load your web browser and load the local file you
just saved out. More hastle that it's worth though.
-Bridge
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Amigan | Vegan | KOSHan - http://kosh.convergence.org
Thanks to Olli for the NC2 MDII fix
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