Re: I agree. LKS

[Richard Tarara <rtarara@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

For once I agree with Jim--at least about the HTML*.  ;-)

Rick

*However attachments are a real problem for those getting the list in digest
form (they are not incorporated into the digest) and there is the continuing
scare about attachments containing viruses.  I think the digest creator can
deal with the HTML to plain text conversion (although fancy formatting will
be lost).  I would also think that listserve software would now have the
capabilities of dealing with HTML and even attachments in order to create
digests--but don't know that for a fact.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Green" <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: I agree. LKS


> > > Please, everyone -- turn off HTML-mail, vcards and other automatic
> > > attachment-generating email settings.
>
> Look folks, Phys-L is not the entire Universe -- It is just too cumbersome
> to remember to turn of styled msgs for recipients who choose to live in
the
> 19th C.  As we move into what some ill informed people want to call the
> 21st C, shouldn't our technology move with us?  There are none of us who
> can't get a free copy of an HTML aware reader -- nor is there a school any
> where  -- except in the Texas desert or in Kosevo -- who's IT people can't
> afford the same.
>
> I propose that it should be the anti-HTML people who should be expected to
> adapt and not the pro-HTML people - - we have (almost) patiently tolerated
> Luddites long enough.
>
> Just little me over here in my corner.
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen