RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Riley, Ron [FRS/AUS]
Geez, do you know how uncomfortable it's making me to see my name in the subject lines of dozens of messages? At the risk of ruffling more feathers, I'd like to state for the record that my mail program (Outlook) was set to send plain text _before_ I sent the message that triggered all this traff

RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Cornish, Merrill
>>> What about those folk who insist on coloured fonts >>> without colouring the background? I have the other problem: colored backgrounds. I'm on Dell's email mailing list. I periodically get email that is navy blue letters on dark blue background. [sigh...] Merrill _

Re: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Lee Goddard
What about those folk who insist on coloured fonts without colouring the background? Sometimes I have a black bg, sometimes off-white; blue text looks terrible, illegible, on both. I mean, HTML mail in this context has little going for it, but when it isn't even done properly _

Re: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Lee Goddard
If we're voting, I'd just like to back Michael Erskine 100%; all the way. lee goddard ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users

Re: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread William A. Jones
ish, Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Joe Schell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:21 PM Subject: Re: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!) > "Cornish, Merrill

RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Martin Moss
Behalf Of > Cameron Dorey > Sent: Thursday 26 October 2000 17:17 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!) > > > Martin Moss wrote: > > > > Fair point, > > > > but the only major concern I

RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Martin Moss
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Cornish, Merrill > >>> Starting sometime in March-June that restriction [on posting > HTML] was > lifted. > > I assume that was at the request of Microsoft. So I realise that many people out there

Re: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Cameron Dorey
"Cornish, Merrill" wrote: > > >>> Starting sometime in March-June that restriction [on posting HTML] was > lifted. > > I assume that was at the request of Microsoft. On what basis do you make that assumption? Cameron -- Cameron Dorey Associate Professor of Chemistry University of Central Ar

RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Cornish, Merrill
>>> Starting sometime in March-June that restriction [on posting HTML] was lifted. I assume that was at the request of Microsoft. Merrill ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-u

RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread erskine, michael
> -Original Message- > From: Joe Schell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 October 2000 16:50 > To: erskine, michael; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!) - >8 snip --- > >

Re: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Philip Newton
erskine, michael wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Martin Moss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Everyone, > > > > I'm curious to other people's viewpoints regarding the html > > email's issue. > > My viewpoint: Let's have a ban on html postings. I agree :). And encourage good q

RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread erskine, michael
> -Original Message- > From: Martin Moss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 October 2000 16:42 > To: erskine, michael; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!) > > > Fair point, > > but the only major

RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Joe Schell
> Behalf Of erskine, michael > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Martin Moss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > > Everyone, > > > > I'm curious to other people's viewpoints regarding the html > > email's issue. > > My viewpoint: Let's have a ban on html postings. > > > Taking on board

RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread Martin Moss
: Martin Moss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 October 2000 16:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!) > > > Everyone, > > I'm curious to other people's viewpoints regarding the html > email's issue. My viewpoin

RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!)

2000-10-26 Thread erskine, michael
> -Original Message- > From: Martin Moss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 October 2000 16:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: John Giordano, Ron Riley, etc. (ASCII PLS!) > > > Everyone, > > I'm curious to other people's viewpoints