Why this phobia to HTML mail?

[Steve Lamb]

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Monday, September 18, 2000, 9:30:42 AM, David wrote:
> These people are my bread and butter so light consider it prudent not to
> question their e-mail format.

    Those people are my bread and butter and I do question it.  Why?  Because
in the long run it makes sense.

> You may wish that standards were generated by some Supreme international
> body with powers to enforce its will but that just isn't the case. Ralph has
> explained the situation better than I could have done.

    No, he has not.  BTW, here are standards bodies, try again.

> I hear what you saying but I see no evidence of any reduction in reliability

    You don't consider the breakage of third party software at the whim of a
single vendor a loss of reliability?  I'm sorry, but that is a documented
fact.

    OS/2, DR-DOS, practically any competitor of MS has suffered that problem.

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