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Re: [TCLUG:13752] HTML (again) was permissions



On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Troy Johnson wrote:

> Just injecting my opinion...
> 
> Because this is an email list, I think we should, as a rule, try to
> accomodate the lowest common denominator in mail readers. Why must we
> sacrifice straight text to the god of HTML? So we can have underlining,
> bold face and italic type, and URL links without that messy HTTP
> protocol info (though some people like to see that stuff). I can live
> without these conveniences, even though they are at my disposal (beacuse
> my preferred browser is HTML capable), so I wonder if they are truly
> that important (on a email list).
> 
> I like the procmail filter idea though. :-)
> 

Hmmmm... it'd be kind of cool to filter it on the mail list server. I
wonder how hard that'd be to do..

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