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From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Justin Bell)
Subject:	email programs was Re: Attitude (was: an inappropriate
Date:	Thu Apr 18 00:00:01 2002

Message no. 1 At 10:52 PM 4/17/2002 -0500, Derek Hyde wrote:
> > you're kidding? What happens when you need to contact someone that
>only
> > receives plain text?
>Not to be an ass but what program won't receive anything other than
>plain text?

mail, mailx, elm

sure, you can read HTML with metamail or something, but that's a bit of a
hack and a real pain in the butt
not all mail programs run under windows or MacOS

>quite a while back, while it may very well still be like that it only
>displays them as plain text and they still receive the message but would
>see all of the HTML tags and things of that nature because that's what

manually trying to make sense of HTML written by Microsoft products is next
to impossible

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Justin Bell
justin@******.net

From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Justin Bell)
Subject:	email programs was Re: Attitude (was: an inappropriate
Date:	Thu Apr 18 00:15:01 2002

Message no. 2 At 11:04 PM 4/17/2002 -0500, Derek Hyde wrote:
> > not all mail programs run under windows or MacOS
>
>are you implying you're using linux? Cause the standard mail reader in
>BeOS handles html nicely and I dunno about OS/2 cause I've never had a
>chance to mess with it

not at the moment, as you can see from my headers, but my preference is to
use a shell based mail reader on a UNIX system. Much more flexibility when
it comes to things like filtering, readin your email remotely, accessing
folders and saved messages remotely, etc. etc

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Justin Bell
justin@******.net

From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Mark M. Smith)
Subject:	email programs was Re: Attitude (was: an inappropriate
Date:	Thu Apr 18 18:20:01 2002

Message no. 3 At 4/18/02 05:06 AM, you wrote:
>According to Derek Hyde, on Thu, 18 Apr 2002 the word on the street was...
>
> > Not to be an ass but what program won't receive anything other than
> > plain text? I've been dealing with computers for most of my life (that
> > being 22 years so far) and have only run across one that only
> > ***displayed*** messages as plain text and that was Eudora and that was
> > quite a while back
>
>Erm... you have heard of mailers such as ELM and PINE, right?

Before anyone complains that people don't typically use them remember the
numerous college students out there that do. A lot of people may use them
for personal preferences, but universities typically have students log into
the central mail server to access their e-mail when away from home. Kansas
State alone only saw a decrease in this recently when they implemented one
of those disgusting web mail interfaces.

>not to mention some people switch off that "feature" entirely.

Exactly. I typically switch this off because otherwise you tend to get the
same problems you do in ICQ/AIM. People who think that they need to best
express themself in Unreadable Font #12 with pink text on a purple
background or something similiar. I had one friend who used a shade just
slightly blue of black that was very unnerving. While not everyone may use
this, it's often easier to kill it all and put things into a sane, decent text.

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Mark M. Smith
belgand@**************.com

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