Re: [OM] OT - MIME and other oddities

[Barry B. Bean]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:42:28 -0700, John
Cwiklinski/Beaverton/Contr/IBM wrote:

>Nope, not accurate. User specified. All E-mail clients are user 
>configurable, including MS Outlook. During "installation", the client 
>software "asks" for internet mail format (i.e. plain text, html, html & 
>plain text, etc.).

The problem being that if you buy a new computer, it typically comes
with outlook installed and set to html. Most users have never
installed it. And how many net newbies would know to look for such a
thing?

BBB (a happy OS/2 user)
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B.B. Bean                                       bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bean & Bean Cotton Co/Bean Farms                http://www.beancotton.com
Peach Orchard, MO


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