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RE: Extending long threads
- From: "GARY VANSICKLE" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:14:24 -0500
- Subject: RE: Extending long threads
> GARY VANSICKLE wrote:
>> There's three reasons people knee-jerk against HTML email:
>>
>> 1. It isn't ASCII (i.e. the "Back in my day a child would open up a
>> gift and within seconds he'd either burst into flames or lose a limb!
>> That's the way it was and we liked it!"[1] Defense).
>> 2a. There isn't an email program alive which can do a "Reply" to an
>> HTML email properly.
> I'm using one right now...
>
> Mozilla (Thunderbird) handles replying to HTML email just fine.
>
Yep, it does the best job last I checked.
>> 2b. ...especially those which support VT-100 terminals.
>> 3. The lines are longer than 80 characters ;-).
>>
>> I fall under category 2a, but my knee isn't jerking: If Outlook
>> didn't absolutely s*ck *ss at "editing" HTML I wouldn't care.
> You can't blame everything on your choice to use Outlook.
I don't blame anything on my choice to use Outlook.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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