On 26-Aug-00 at 19:46:03, Mike Leavitt wrote these words of wisdom:
> Hello Patrick On 25-Aug-00, you wrote:
>> On 26-Aug-00, The Databug wrote:
>>
>>> a small detail but it's these things that can make all the
>>> difference. One thing that I think would definately win the mailer
>>> battle would be an HTML capable mailer.
>>
>> I disagree strongly with any acceptance, stated or implied that
>> html is suitable for email. It's another MS corruption of everything
>> that is good and decent. When I get html I corrupt the file so it just
>> looks the same but cannot work and send it back to source.
>>
>> If html in email is accepted the next damn thing would be MSWord docs.
>
> I fear it has come to that already. I put CatDoc and VincED on the
> wife's machine so she can decode all those .doc attachments her
> computer illerate friends send her. I got tired of her forwarding them
> to me, and having to do it myself and then email her back usable text
> documents.
A relatively new solution to this is the docdatatypes and Multiview (or
whichever datatypes text reader you prefer). http://go.to/docdatatypes
They are under active development and support a myriad of PC, Mac, Palm,
and Atari word processing formats. It is shareware with a small fee, but you
can demo the datatypes with a restriction of 1000 characters.
>> There are several that work perfectly. I think OPENURL is an essential
>> starting point. However the only correct place to export html
>> documents is back to source with rude comments. Tell themn if you
>> wanted bloody html you would go to bloody www.
>
> I still use moreHTML, a HYML text reader. It drops all the images, but
> if it won't decode the HTML, rarely I send it to Aweb or IBrowse, but
> usually just dump it. I like to be able to read HTML, but I would
> never send it, unless it was a webpage for their review, and then I
> would explain in the body what it was. moreHTML works just fine with
> MicroDot II if you set up the mimes properly. I have to look as
> OPENURL though, I have been using moreHTML since before OPENURL was
> available.
I find the quickest solution nowadays is the SimpleHTML datatype and
Multiview. http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/english.html
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