Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: List Servers non-support of HTML

[Howard Landman (howard]

Dec 14, 2002:  Check out new URL at end of this (and every list message) for 
Cohousing-L info page.  Season's Greetings.  Fred, list manager.
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> Just curious: what client do you use that doesn't support HTML?

I read this list using Elm, on a computer that has text-only access
(telnet or ssh).  So the connection method itself only supports
plain text - no HTML, no RTF, no MIME types, no attachments.  Elm
is about as good as I could hope for under that limitation, except
that it doesn't forward non-text elements properly, so that I can't
solve the attachment (etc.) problem by forwarding.  But the good thing
is that I can read this account from anywhere, using anything, no
matter how primitive (even a text terminal and a 300 baud modem).

Sigh.  There was a time, not too many years ago, when you could read
most email and browse most web pages using a text-only interface
over an acoustic modem and it was plenty fast.  Now we routinely have
multi-megabyte web pages, and I often get emails that cannot be read
unless I have the full suite of Microsoft Office installed (which I
don't).  How is somebody in the 3rd world supposed to be able to access
this stuff?

Of course, the bigger problem is that the email I receive here is:
        85% spam
        10% virus/worm attacks (which don't work since it's not Windows)
         3% this list
         2% actual personal email
But that's a different topic.

        Howard A. Landman (on the road today)
        River Rock Commons
        Fort Collins CO
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