[pmmail-list] HTML EMail was in Digest (05/30/2002 09:01) (#2002-235)

[John Angelico]

On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:02:12 -0400, jimmym@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
wrote:


>Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 08:48:42 -0700
>From: "David M. Nelson" <solomani@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [pmmail-list] PMMail 2000 Update

Actually now it's about HTML Email <g>

>On Wed, 29 May 2002 10:06:29 +0200, xavier caballe wrote:

and David responded in part
>
>So in closing, I agree with you--keep the ability to write and view
>HTML e-mail in the software. Like it or not, that has become an
>expectation of modern e-mail software. Please understand that some of
>us are making an informed request to disable that feature. :-)
>
>(Darn that new-fangled aych-tee-emm-ell mail! In *my* day we didn't
>*have* colored text. It was just ten little green dots on the screen
>and you had to memorize the different combinations that made up each
>letter. And only one letter was visible at a time, so you had to
>memorize every one until the whole message was displayed, and if you
>forgot...well that was *TOO BAD* because you couldn't reverse once it
>had passed as the computer only had 2K of memory. And that's the way it
>was and WE LIKED IT!!)

Hey, man, some of us old fogies remember fountain pens, and those
typewriter thingies were creating a noise hazard in the "typing pools"!



Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
talldad@melbpc.org.au or talldad@kepl.com.au
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