I know this is nothing new but....

I got an email from a M$ infected friend yesterday.. 27K ... I
cut/paste/forwarded to someone else in pine and it left me 700 BYTES.

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jill Rowling wrote:

> Even worse is I can't even use email now as a teaching tool.
> 
> If I put html source code in-line in my mail, to teach my mum how to do a
> hyperlink, everyone can read it except for her because her unlovely outlook
> express mail client chooses to reformat everything it gets into [A..z0..9]
> only.
> 
> I was telling her:
>       This does not have hypelinks on, and
>       <a href="sample.html">This</a> does.
> 
> All she sees is
>       This does not have hypelinks on, and
>       This does
> (with the second "This" in a colour)
> 
> Yet another reason to use Linux / Gnu software and get rid of the M$
> rubbish. Try telling that to Corporate Australia!
> 
> BTW Outlook (not outlook express) doesn't do this... well maybe some
> versions don't ...
> 
> - Jill.
> 
> ___________________________________________
> Jill Rowling
> Senior Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
> Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies
> 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
> Phone:        (02) 9697-4484          Fax:    (02) 9663-1412
> Email:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
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