On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 09:10 , Jeremy Derr wrote: > I, for instance, use pine exclusively when I'm relegated to a dial-up > on the road or when I'm using someone else's computer to check my mail. > Would you care to see what stylized text looks like in Pine? If i'm > lucky, the terminal program just strips out all of the styling and > shows the message in plain text. If the sender was using a standards > conforming email client (that is, a non-microsoft client), I get a > message stating that the message requires a character set that my > current terminal doesn't support. If I'm unlucky and the sender is > using a non-compliant mail program, a two or three line email can be > rendered as several pages of completely incomprehensible jibberish. > usually an alternation of ^'s and some other characters.
My first E-mail address was PINE-based as well. I can vouch for this. It was less common back in 1996 when I was using it, but I still got more than one E-mail with "special formatting" that came up as, at best, intelligible text mixed with garbage or annoying HTML tags. Even nowadays, I tend to E-mail in plain text pretty much exclusively, except at work where I know everyone's client is the same and can handle the special formatting. John A. Ardelli Owner/Moderator BIFIDA-L: The Original Spina Bifida Discussion List The Crystal Corner - The Original Dark Crystal Discussion List -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
