Hello Markus Gloede, On or about Friday, January 17, 2003 at 16:26:55GMT +0100 (which was 10:26 AM in the tropics where I live) Markus Gloede shocked us all by stating:
MG> (1) HTML was never intended for email use, it is mostly MG> being abused in an email context Amen brother!! MG> (2) Reading/writing USENET news is something different than MG> handling email Absolutely. I have virtually abandoned ESENET because of the proliferation of SPAM and the lack of maturity of most of the posters. MG> Those are not "standard email features". They have been MG> wrapped into email clients by other companies and they made a MG> bad job at it and have thus set a quasi-standard which led MG> you to believe those are standard features. If we WANTED all this crappola, we wouldn't have far to go, it's called MS Outhouse/Outhouse Express. An outhouse is full of ??? MG> Anyway... >> (1) Edit or use an existing HTML editor in a seamless manner >> (2) Have the option of viewing HTML pages in its viewer. The double >> clicking attachments is cumbersome. It would be much better if that >> feature was simply optional and utilized function calls to existing >> browser code like Hotmetal used to do or other HTML editors could. MG> RIT Labs has given in and (1) and (2) will come in future releases. MG> :( OK, but as long as it is (1) OPTIONAL and can be (2) filtered against and if desired DELETED upon receipt, I guess it will have to be. Without 1 & 2, I will again be looking elsewhere!! Fair warning, if anyone is listening...... >> (3) Read NNTP News Groups MG> Many prefer using a separate client for that, yet future MG> releases might also implement that. S*%T to that! -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike "We are the people that our parents warned us about." -------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Against HTML Mail \ / If it aint a webpage it shouldn't be HTML. X Say NO! to bloatmail - ban HTML mail! / \ Ask Spikey, he hates averything (HTML). -------------------------------------------------- Flying in the stratosphere with The Bat! V1.61 on Windows 2000 Vers. 5 0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
