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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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