I don't know... I think anything that's badly written, proprietary or not, will cost people money in the end. See Windows Vista and how much its costing Microsoft for example.
Tony Tambasco Director, An Experiment with an Air Pump Clarkson Theatre Co, April 2009 tonytambasco.com email: [email protected] cell: 716-450-8148 --- On Thu, 3/12/09, Harris, Anthony J <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Harris, Anthony J <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Being mean to Flint > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 3:38 PM > 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 ^^-^^
