Brett Parker wrote:
On 04 Jun 21:46, Anthony Anson wrote:
As well you might. It doesn't really have anything to do with price: it's all to do with a common standard, and while M$ did try to hijack the internet when they discovered that it *WAS* going to come to something, that's no reason for all users to follow the HTML-in-posts non-compliance like so many sheep.
Bing bing bing bing... HTML e-mail wasn't an MSism... for once not their fault in the beginning... MS used RTF (well, more or less) for "Rich" e-mail at the beginning, IIRC then it was Netscape that added HTML e-mail support, which caught on, and then MS switched to that too.
Also, technically, HTML posts aren't non-compliant, they perfectly fit in to a mime encoded e-mail. Done correctly they fit RFCs perfectly.
(I would point out at this point that I *personally* don't like HTML e-mail, and that it's a waste of time/effort/money to send, gives no advantages to either end, and just wastes bandwidth)
Cheers,
I sit corrected.
Having been using Zetnet's in-house mail and newshandling software (ZIMACS) since I was using Mosaic as a browser, I never investigated Netscape's mail/news interface.
Sequence went: Mosaic; Netscape from coverdisc; Firebird, Opera; Firefox.