Re: HTML: woes

Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 20:02:52 -0700


> Erik Moeller wrote:
> > Fuck it, HTML in e-mail is a no-no.

Michael Lorrey wrote:
> How about this also applying to whoever it is on the list using some unix text
> editor that puts "=20" characters at the end of each line. That is very
> annoying, and they have the gall to complain about HTML tags.

I don't think I've seen MIME-clutter in any post that complained about
HTML-clutter.

How about people who don't clean up their quoted matter?

> > >> >I'd thought that the umlauts in german can be swapped for a following
> > "e"??
> > >>
> > >> Exactly, I'd just like this to be the standard. When I write an article and
> >
> > >> send it via mail, I have to use either HTML or zipped 8-bit ASCII because
> > >> otherwise the recipient would have to re-convert all the umlauts (cannot be
> >
> > >> done automatically) in order to publish it.

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