From:	Ojaste,James [NCR] James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA
Subject:	This message intentionally sent with buggered formatting. :)
Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:40:27 -0500

Lehlan Decker wrote:
> >It's not HTML coded email that I dislike - it's generated HTML
> >that I dislike. It really isn't that hard to generate legal, legible
> >HTML; it's just that nobody bothers to do it. Grr.
>
> That is because you have so many folks who never actually
> learned it the hardway, when there was no fancy editor, and you
> had only vi and alittle imagination. You then throw in microsoft's
>
"Only vi", he says. That's like saying "with only a Barret 121..."
;-)

> various products, which tend to butcher converted documents etc,
> and you get illegible ugly code. These days you don't have to be
> even computer literate to generate an HTML document.
>
Ah, but therein lies the problem - it's not actually generating an
HTML document, just a document that *looks* like HTML. Or, more
precisely, a document that the popular two web browsers are willing
to accept as HTML while the standards spin in their graves.

Hmm. Maybe I should set up a proxy that runs a validator on all viewed
web pages and mails the output to the appropriate webmaster... >:-)

James Ojaste