Re: Message formatting

[Roger Heflin <rah@horizon.hit.net>]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Carl Ijames wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I know I'm new here and maybe few others care, but I'm still using pine
> for email (a text-only, non-html-friendly reader) so when a message comes
> through the list as html it's a real pain to decipher.  Other lists I'm on
> try to encourage everyone to turn off all text formatting - what's the
> concensus here?  If nothing else it keeps the size of the archives down
> :-).  Also, I've about completed my .ecu file for the 7148 and thought I'd
> upload it to the incoming area if that's okay.  It's not comprehensive but
> has 50kB worth of what I want to tune :-).  Should it be plain text or
> zipped, and should there also be a .txt readme file or is a .ecu
> self-explanatory?  If I do a more complete vesion later can I replace the
> earlier one?

I agree with you Carl, I also use either Pine or Elm and it is a royal
pain inthe but to deal with HTML.   I wish microsoft had enough sense
to set the default to not use html.

I think the standard on attachments is put it on a ftp or http site
and let the ones that want it get it that way.

			Roger

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