Subject: Re: [Re: V I D E O S - M U S I Q U E]
From: lseltzer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Date: Sun Jan 07 2001 - 17:47:14 EST
I am catching up on old e-mail and re this debate of plain text
vs formatted e-mail - formatted e-mail is all right if you are
in front of your own computer reading mail with a browser or with
Microsoft Outlook. However, if you are reading e-mail from a
remote location via telnet and the screen is essentially a vt100,
sometimes attachments make it through Berkeley Unix mail and
sometimes they do not. Sometimes the mail program can translate
a file in MIME format and sometimes it cannot. So anyone who
insists on sending formatted e-mail is simply taking the risk that
some people will be able to read it and some people will not.
Things like this will get worse under Third Generation Wireless when
people will read e-mail from small hand-held devices on a screen that
only displays a few lines, and maybe they will select to have
their e-mail "spoken" to them instead of displayed.
Linda Seltzer
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