Re: html messages

["Ken Keith" <ken.keith@specialdevices.com>]

Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>
> 
> Hairy green toads from Mars made David Kavanagh staff say:
> 
> > It would be good if those posting messages in html format could stop.
> > I use a traditional mail reader which does not parse html. I'm sure I
> > a not alone in this.
> 
> Nope, not alone. ELM was good enough for my grandfather, so it's
> good enough for me :-)
> 
> Unfortunately, many PC mailers really *can't* easily turn off HTML.
> Thank you Bill Gates. :-(

And furthermore, regardless of what kind of reader you have, if you're on 
the digest version, it all gets sent to you as ASCII garbage.  Everyone on 
the digest gets lots and lots of garbage in addition to the useful (?) 
readable words.  Are there any exceptions to this?

Ken

p.s.  Omigod, Dean, you didn't post the _whole_ digest to the list with 
your email, did you?  That's another no-no!  :-)