On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 billn@billn.net wrote:
The world has more than eight bits. The community at large (read: me) does not care if someone has been left out because they *chose* to be or lacks the ability or wherewithal to adapt. In short: Technical snobbery is not operational. It took more effort to respond saying the mail couldn't be read than it probably took to sanitize it for reading. Being a member of the vocal minority isn't a point of pride, you're just louder than someone else.
I don't know why this is even an issue. I'm on a shell account, on a linux box, reading mail using Pine, and HTML mail is rendered just fine here, as text with some minimal amount of markup (extremely minimal). Pine runs on just about anything, has been around for years, is stable, and doesn't require plugins or mailcap entries to sanely render HTML to a text-only display. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.