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Russ Hunt <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 16 May 2002 10:07:17 -0300
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Thanks for this site, too.  This is very useful for explaining to subscribers what they can do
to post to my lists.

On 15 May 2002 at 23:13, Deborah Shaw wrote:

>    For more information about the evils of HTML coding, see
>    Gerald E. Boyd's explanation
>    <http://www.expita.com/nomime.html>

There's another reason not to send mail with other than clean ascii coding; incompatibility
serves the wishes of large corporations who want to impose _their_ conventions on everybody.
Micro$oft Outlook comes sending prettified mail by default precisely _because_ people who
haven't bought Micro$oft Outlook have a hard time reading it.

-- Russ

St. Thomas University
http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/

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