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From:	Rolf Campbell <Endlisnis AT mailc DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Extending long threads
Date:	Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:32:49 -0400
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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.


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