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Re: HTML mail (was Re: bridling hostility)



On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:49:07AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:58:32AM -0600, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:33:58AM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote:
> > > The net is a wild and wooly place, and special, old-school
> > > requirements are surely the responsibility of the eccentric
> > > recipient only. HTML mail is not unreasonable in the year 2002, when
> > > most email clients are HTML-savvy.
> > 
> > Most mail clients are *not* HTML savvy.  And I know of no good ones
> > which are.  
> 
> Umm, I'm aware of none, except 'mail' and 'mailx', on unix machines
> which are *not*.
> 
> mutt, mh, elm, and pine all deal with HTML just fine.
> 
> Of course, they do it by calling lynx...

zo'o And you can *edit* html in lynx?

Yes I could use procmail to turn html into text (and I do this at
work).  But the text that comes out sucks.

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Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
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                                     sei la mark. tuen. cusku

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