Questions for PMMail Tech Support

[Jason Gibbs]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:27:50 -0400, Larry Ebbitt wrote:

>Hazen Woods wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:16:27 -0700, James Marshall wrote:
>> 
>
>
>> I still think email should be plain text, but there comes a time when
>> one must consider whether to walk upright along with progress or to
>> imitate the ostrich.  If the OS/2 version doesn't incorporate HTML,
>> then my choices seem to be either contaminating my system with some
>> Windoze stuff or change to some other mail reader.  Neither of these
>> alternatives is attractive.
>
>I don't see adding a bunch of cruft to mail to be progress.  It can only
>be ignorance or stupidity or pandering to ignorance and stupidity.  I can
>still read and I don't buy USA Today.  I'd hate to see what is arguably
>the best of the GUI newreaders screwed up with such crap.  If they do 
>include such support and don't make it optional, I'll not be spending any
>money on it.
>

I'd like to see an option where only the hyperlink is preserved -
everything else can be left as pure text.


Jason
*my thoughts are my own until they are ripped apart*