Why this phobia to HTML mail?

[Brian Morrison]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:35:38 +0200, xavier caballe wrote:

>I understand that you don't like HTML mail. Ok, just ask for a switch to disable that option... and everybody will be happy. I don't understand the 
>generalized phobia that some people on this list has to this feature: if you don't like, don't use it! That's fine for me. But please let me decide by myself 
>if I want to use it.
>

The switch off option is fine Xavi, I for one would use it as I have a
genetic aversion to HTML mail. However, it's a but much to be telling
me that I should be tolerant of HTML mail when your lines are
considerably over 80 characters long :-)

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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
               just how damaged have I become?
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