Re: A89: LinuxTI & Memory Expander

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Re: A89: LinuxTI & Memory Expander


I still say that no one should complain. =)  As for me, I don't think I've
posted an HTML email to this list since I first got on the internet almost a
year ago.

-Miles Raymond      EML: m_rayman@bigfoot.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: Zoltan Kocsi <zoltan@bendor.com.au>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: A89: LinuxTI & Memory Expander


>  > My suggestion to you is to use an email program that supports HTML
>  > viewing... no one says you have to use AOL's email, even if you do use
them
>  > as an ISP.  There are free POP email services out there, and plenty of
free
>  > emial programs.
>
> I'd still suggest that you don't use HTML in email: email is email and
> HTML is HyperText Markup Language. An email is not a crossreferencable
> hypertext, that is, a web of document entities that have some higher
> logical relation to each other.
>
> In addition, not everyone uses Windows and not necessarily can access
> email clients that handle HTML extensions (or choose not to, for
> reasons of his/her discretion).
>
> Sending HTML is not different from sending any other non-ASCII format,
> say a Word document or RTF or Postscript or whichever format you
> choose. Since there is no RFC standard which would guarantee that an
> email client have to understand any of these, it is best to avoid them.
> It is a courtesy to others and it is also part of the Netiquette.
>
> Alternatively, use an email client which can build a database of your
> possible addressees and use the format that they can handle, that is,
> which will send HTML to my_buddy@leading.edge.email.readers and
> will encode everything to Chinese charset to lee.chu@somewhere.in.china
> and sends just strait ASCII to the rest@of.us and, most importantly,
> to any@mailing.list
>
> Just my humble oppinion,
>
> Regards,
>
> Zoltan
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