Life after PMMail

[Simon Bowring]

><satire>
>The major issue is somehow accommodating the legions of old command-line fogies who, having just barely gotten used to the concept of 
keyboards with minuscule as well as majuscule letters, cannot reasonably be asked to deal with any format more complex than ASCII. They 
_will_ continue to harp about trivia like "bandwidth", never realizing that they have entered a new world where hardware and protocol 
improvements are making bandwidth limitless for all practical purposes; where formatting protocols are converging on widely accepted, 
international standards; where fusion power and fuel cells will make electricity too cheap to meter, where ....
>
>Bother. 
></satire>

This quote is way, way out of date, bandwidth is *not* the problem with 
HTML email AGREED STANDARDS by which such mailers should work are the
problem (there aren't any!!!!!).

Sorry if I misunderstood the humour in your message, but someone from NIST 
(National Institute of Standards and Technology) might be expected to know 
the value of standards!!

Nice 140 character lines BTW!

Simon