You know 
what drives me insane are posts with hard returns
so that
every other line is cut off and makes the friggin post
a pain in
the ass to read. Is this the user doing this or is this
from a lame
text based dinosaur of a email reader?

 Jim

Sender: billyw  Date: 7/10/98 7:49 AM

>At 08:43 AM 9/07/1998 -0400, Jim Cobb wrote:
>>OR you can get a modern email package which correctly interprets html 
>>emails. Might as well not fight the tide, Will, it's you against the 
>>masses.
>
>Jim, I don't see 'modern' HTML-swollen email packages giving me 
>anything that the old ASCII ones don't, except bloat and little 
>vcard files and other strange droppings in my down directory.
>
>HTML also doubles the volume for the list servers to chug through.
>And stuffs the bandwidth for those of us further from the 'centre'.
>
>Keep HTML for the web where people like pretty pictures and coloured
>text. 
>
>Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go and colour in my 
>correspondence with my new bumper box of crayons.
>
>rgrds  billyw
>
>


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