Klarinet Archive - Posting 001321.txt from 1998/01

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: HTML is bad
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:28:01 -0500

Shouryu Nohe wrote:
> Not all of us are reliant on web browsers for email; in fact, many of us
> LIKE to use UNIX, which doesn't read HTML.

Two different animals, Shouryu. My Unix boxes do HTML mail reading
just fine - however, your Pine mailer has no idea what to do with
html MIME encoding, so it passes it along.
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