Interesting Quick Thought

Wu, Ben WuB at AUSTRALIA.Stortek.com
Tue Jan 22 12:50:31 EST 2002


Yup, and also HTML gets mangled by some digest processors, so you get
plaintext HTML embedded inside the plaintext digest.

Not being a browser myself, I find it a bit too much effort to interpret raw
HTML.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dwayne [mailto:dwayne at pobox.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:54 PM
> To: Brett Lymn
> Cc: wireless at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Interesting Quick Thought
> 
> 
> Brett Lymn wrote:
> > 
> > According to dwayne:
> > >
> > >try reading a HTML-only message on a text terminal, bucko.
> > >
> > 
> > Does anyone?
> 
> Right this instant: no
> 
> Quite often (more than once a week):  yes
> 
> >   If I see a html mess I normally just delete the message unread.
> 
> Which, of course, is how we got to this point in the discussion.
> 
> >  If I feel particularly annoyed I send the message back with 
> > surrounding <pre>...</pre> tags asking if they can read this crap.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better if they just sent it as text?
> 
> Dwayne
> 
> 




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