Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Extending long threads Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:32:49 -0400 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe000d88e20e0f-cm00080d366047.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) In-Reply-To: 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. > 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/