[TriLUG] RANT: HTML Email Su*ks

[Mike]

On Sunday 25 May 2003 09:58, Tom Boucher wrote:
> On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 12:15 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
> > I *hate* HTML emails that arrive in my text-based email reader!
> >
> > I usually read email via elm on a ssh session from a non-x terminal.
> > htmlview does *not* do a good job rendering HTML (despite several
> > attempts to find a good intermediary for it to use.)
> >
> > I'd like to think that Linux users/fans would have a clue and not send
> > HTML emails to a mailing list.
> >
> > </rant>
>
> How bout I take the rant up a notch and rant about people that won't
> join the 90s let alone the 2000s with a mail reader that knows what to
> do with HTML ?

I know what to do with HTML e-mail, DELETE 'em.  They're usually SPAM and I 
get enough non-HTML mail to keep me busy.

Mike
>
> I mean we all don't still use green screen VT100 terminals do we?  At
> least I hope not all of us do.   It's different to see something with
> formatting, fonts, and the like instead of plain old text.
>
> Not that I use HTML anyway or waste my time formatting my emails.  But
> it seems so pedantic to complain about something that has been
> available for years now.
>
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