Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's not so much the pretty backgrounds and cool fonts we care about, it's the amount of bloat that comes with it that bothers most of us. Those tags for fonts, packaged backgrounds and everything else blooms the message size tremendously. Posting in HTML alone causes a doubling in message size (it transmits both text-only and the marked up text). Please, not all of us have cable modems or T3's dropped into our computer rooms... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================== Steve, I've never utilized one of the "pretty backgrounds". In responding to students' requests for help with an essay examination, it is sometimes helpful if I can make use of red, or italics, or bold. But actually the point I was originally making was that w/o out "bells & whistles" OE works pretty well and IF the functionality is ever need, the ability to READ html mail is not what i would consider a liability..... NS Messenger is not bad, but in Linux I prefer Kmail (although it doesn't seem to handle html. Mike COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 It's a fresh wind the Blows Against the Empire ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
