Subject: Re: [Re: V I D E O S - M U S I Q U E]
From: Lotis T (T.Lotis@city.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 07 2001 - 18:48:55 EST
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 lseltzer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU wrote:
Totally Agree!!!!!
>
> 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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