Art Rowe wrote:
>
> Microsoft bashing is fun, as it was when I was trying OS2, but MS Explorer is a
> good program.
> When I was dual booting Win 98 and Linux, I was using it. When I
> realized, from mail lists, that html was a problem for some people, I changed
> my settings so that I sent text only by default.
>
> I agree with the sentiments below.
>
> Art
> -------------------------------
> Original Message:
> OE is Evil?????
> I'm a linux user and very rarely boot into wondoze. but when I do, I find OE
> 5.0 extremely functional. What kind of savy does it take to turn off html. At
> least when I receive an html post from a student, I can read it with no
> problem. (of course, NS Mesaanger can read it also, but in linux I prefer
> Kmail, which doesn't read html). I'm no M$ fan, but I find it childish to
> hammer away at software that works well just because it's M$. They make a
> shitty enough OS to pound on w/o hammering their effective software IMHO. Mike
> :o)
It's not so much the pretty backgrounds and cool fonts we care about,
it's the amount of bloat that comes with it that bothers most of us.
Those tags for fonts, packaged backgrounds and everything else blooms
the message size tremendously. Posting in HTML alone causes a doubling
in message size (it transmits both text-only and the marked up text).
Please, not all of us have cable modems or T3's dropped into our
computer rooms...
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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