The difference being, of course, that HTML is hardly a proprietary format that costs people money...
-----Original Message----- From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of H. Kurth Bemis Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Being mean to Flint The world also seems to embrace Microsoft Windows as well. Guess we'd all better switch. :^) On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:43 -0400, Harris, Anthony J wrote: > You do realize of course that darn near every email program in common use > other than Pine/Alpine will correctly handle HTML emails these days... > > I wasn't a fan either, but the world seems to have pretty much embraced them. > > Tony > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Flint > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Being mean to Flint > > Dear Josh, > > Unicode I can handle. I just do not like HTML mail. > > Regards, > > Flint > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Josh Sled wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:39:13 -0400 > > From: Josh Sled <[email protected]> > > To: Paul Flint <[email protected]> > > Cc: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: vtSDA Special Announcement (3/12) > > > > Paul Flint <[email protected]> writes: > >> My browser reads HTML. My email system reads ASCII email. > > > > It's 2009. If your email can't handle HTML (even if it's better not to > > use it, for good reasons), or if your email system can't handle Unicode, > > then maybe you should upgrade. â~º > > > > -- > > ...jsled > > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} > > > > Kindest Regards, > > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > Fax: (703) 852-7089 > > Consilium > gratuitum .~. > valet /V\ > quanti /( )\ > numerantur ^^-^^
