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| hi. I just downloaded Internet Explorer 4.0 (Get it, it's awesome!), and it gives me the option of sending mail in either HTML or plain text format. Which format should I use for mailings on this list? Which ones do you guys prefer? Thanks phil (...) (27 years ago, 2-Jul-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | | Re: HTML or Plain Text?
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| Hi! Please use plain text. Not all mail programs support html(for example pine) Lars ~~~...~~~ "You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and say "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw Lars Olsson Kruthornsv.54b,nb 192 53 (...) (27 years ago, 2-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | | Re: HTML or Plain Text?
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| (...) Heartily agree. I use Pine on three different op-systems, and choose to use Unix op-systems over Windows most of the time. Pine chokes on html files, requiring me to save the message as a file, and then look at it with vi. I usually choose to (...) (27 years ago, 2-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) My person preference is a format which includes both HTML and plain text, which I assume IE4 can do since NN4 can do it. I do all my email on a Mac using Netscape Communicator 4.01 (no you don't need Microsoft products to do HTML email), which (...) (27 years ago, 3-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| When I was on AoL, I didn't give a rat's hindside about what sort of e-mail was sent, but now I'm on this strange UNIX-based THING that I really do dislike, which makes it a pain for any non-strictly text files, so I'd rather it was in plain text. (...) (27 years ago, 3-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Yeah, I sometimes get that HTML stuff on my screen and then...delete. ---...--- ericson mar Master of Engineering Candidate Project: Mobile Robotics mar@cooper.edu (212)353-4356 Department of Mechanical Engineering The Cooper Union for the (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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