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.
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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