On 01 7 2004 at 3:12 pm -0400, matt haines wrote:

>there's nothing sacred about text-only emails. they're fine normally, and
>i use emails that way pretty regularly. but haven't you ever wanted to
>underline a word? or perhaps make it bold? oh come on, i know you have!

You don't know many of us very well apparently :)

>wanting to underline a word in email doesn't mean you're a moron, or a
>spammer, or some newbie/fashionista. it's just practical.

It is not practical, considering there is no way to do so in text/plain
e-mail.

I would like to see my brother's face when I speak to him over the phone,
but it's not practical, because the phone doesn't do that.

>and given the competition in email clients, including Apple Mail
>which is free,

It is not free; it comes bundled with a USD $129 operating system.

-ben

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