The Great "Hard Return" Debate

[Brian Morrison]

On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 06:39:28 -0500 (EST), Nigel Clarke wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 22:37:42 -0700, Marty Abrego wrote:
>>You win; a new RFC will never fly --- the inertia is unstoppable. 
>>Eventually, if you can't read that *&^%$#@! M$ Outlook rich text
>>excrement, you'll have to live without email compatiblility with 99%
>>of internet users.  It's a beautiful world.  The only way out is to
>>emigrate to Proxima Centari...
>>
>In fact I don't have to read MS's non standard Rich text crap. I 
>have a script that grabs each message as it comes in, strips out
>the Rich text crap and presents me with a plain text email message
>in its place. 
>
>This means that I won't be on that ship to Proxima Centauri.
>

I take it that the script of which you speak is the one available from
Hobbes?

-- 
Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
               just how damaged have I become?
                                      'Even Deeper' by Nine Inch Nails