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Hello Curtis!
Saturday, September 16, 2000, 11:45:22 PM, you wrote:
> E-mail has little to do with survival. It has more to do with a
> convenient way of corresponding. Although, mind you, society is getting
> sophisticated to the point where e-mail is considered a need for
> 'survival' as things are now. :-)
As you presumedly guessed my comment was mainly ironic. Since I am
subscribed to more than one mailing list - and one of them is for
Fortes Agent - this discussion tends to come up every two days. And
no one seems to see the futility of exchanging the same
(individualistic) arguments over and over again.
I myself use the HTML viewer as default for some newsletters. And
they actually *are* easier to read and use (they use a TOC with links
to the news, where one finds another link to the homepage, use it or
not).
The technical problems I described BTW stand - and you did not argue
against them. What also stands are my arguments about misuse, which
you supported. Rather sadly I receive especially at work a lot of
e-mail as HTML without any sense. You will remember that I made it
into a joke the last time this theme came up: We standardly use in
our agency OE. Every mail sent is totally unformatted but comes in
HTML - sometimes the whole message is already contained in the
subject header.
One good thing is that we can send links for documents on a remote
hard drive to someone, who can then just double click it to open the
doc. You will find a request by me in the archives if this feature
can be put into TB! since links send with it are just files with no
use.
Oh yes, one more thing, I sometimes send HTML e-cards ... ;-).
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Using The Bat! 1.46
under Windows 95 4.0 Build
1212 C
Dierk Haasis
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
(T.H. Huxley)
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