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From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, 13 April, 2003 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: ( OM) OT fonts in e-mail - digest test
> But it is limited. I can drive a car that only uses Propane, but I
wouldn't
> complain because most gas stations only have gasoline. I know the
> limitations and I live with them. A better analogy: I can ride a horse to
> work too, but won't complain because the gas stations don't carry oats.
but did you know that there are still some long outdated laws on the books
in the UK that if you ride up to the Savoy, Dorchester, Gleneages, or any
other five [or fewer] starred hotels after a hard day on the range that the
hotelier is required by law to provide to the stabling, feeding, and
watering or your horse. The Savoy might not have a gas pump out back, but
they sure might have a bag of oats on hand just in case Silver and Scout
came by.
>
> There are excellent X-terminal email packages that support more than text,
> I'm sure.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I prefer plain text and it is all I use, but I think
the
> arguments are deflections. In private email, between consenting partners,
> they can use whatever they want.
>
> I still think the digest is more trouble than it is worth though :)
>
> Tom
>
> > Depends how you define decent! I use Pine, a very decent e-mail program
> > indeed, which does everything I need it to and is very usable, but as
> > it's designed for use inside a unix/linux terminal, it can only do plain
> > text. It's very convenient for me to use a text-only mail program in an
> > xterm, and doesn't mean it's an antiquated or poorly updated system.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > Tom Scales wrote:
> > > Now Thomas, come on. A decent email package, including OE, Eudora and
> > > Outlook would have understood it just fine. Even my stupid Webmail
> system
> > > that I access the mail from work understood it. It would take a
pretty
> > > antiquated or poorly updated system to not understand it.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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