quoted 4 lines Hmmm yeah, i sure like reading pure HTML code too :)>> Hmmm yeah, i sure like reading pure HTML code too :)
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> What can I say? Get Netscape or Explorer. e-mail can't stay pure text
> forever ...
I'm not sure if this is arrogance or naivete.
It might be naivete. e-mail hasn't been pure text for a long time, Gonzi.
Ever hear of MIME? You're soaking in it.
Or, it might be arrogance. "Even though I'm the ONLY person on IDM posting
HTML messages and expecting people to read their mail via a Web browser
(even though the Web browser has a sucky mail reading interface and should
stick to what it knows best, namely Web browsing) or fire up a Web browser
to read a two-line e-mail message (because their normal mail readers say
that's what you can fire up to read this "text/html" type), that's OK!!!
Because I am The Great Gonzorama, and I have seen the future, and will lead
the way!!!"
This reminds me of a story. Back a while ago, the Sun "mailtool" GUI
program that comes with OpenWindows gained the ability to send things as
attachments (this was pre-MIME), among them being sound file attachments.
So a friend at Sun sent me a mail with an audio attachment. The mail message
was 36 Kb, with attachment (uuencoded). Since I didn't use "mailtool", I
had to unbundle the attachment from the body, copy it to /tmp, uudecode it
into the underlying .au file, and play the thing. It turned out to be a
verbalized version of a single sentence, and when I typed it in, it turned
out to be something like 130 letters long. So I got a 36 Kb email instead
of a single-sentence 130-character e-mail of plain text. Sheesh.
Now, here we are years later, and Gonzi's telling me I have to fire up
Netscape - a process that can take up to a minute on my wheezing old
SPARCstation 1 here, depending on system load - to read his 2-liner message.
Plain text works for 99 44/100ths percent of us. Get a grip.
ObIDM: I finally listened to the Boards of Canada 12" I bought a month and a
half ago at Modern Music. (*sheepish grin*) So why doesn't this
thing thrill me all that much, given the huzzahs on this list about it?
- Greg