HTML in posts to the list

[Magnus Danielson]

From: harry <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: HTML in posts to the list
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 23:41:54 -0500

> I'm not having a problem... but I never forward a HTML document.
> My mail client gies me the choice and I use
> PLAIN TEXT.
> 
> I also insist in sending all my professional e-mail in
> PLAIN ASCII.

Right, but I run ISO 8859-1 or ISO Latin 1, ASCII doesn't work well
with things like ÅÄÖ which I depend upon for a non-American languague ;)

> I refuse to use any proprietary format
> like Microsoft word, lotus wordpro... Screw them!!!
> I want to be able to read it two years from now without
> converting through twenty revisions !!!

Right. I sadly have been forced to use it for professional usage, but
for my private stuff... no MS stuff at all! Serious, I have been able
to relax with my usage of computers since I let that stuff go. Since
Win 3.11 for Workgroups it has gone downhills... ;)

> So how about them .GIF files   ;^)

Nope. Broken stuff, don't use. Patent pending all over it. Use JPEG or
PNG. Those are patent free and seriously supported open standards. GIF
is a no-no!

Sadly enought, the full JPEG standard is not free from patents, so
what most of you perceive as JPEG is a well established subset and
file format called JFIF.

Cheers,
Magnus