Plain Text ASCII vs. Styled Text in AOL

Dave Washburn dwashbur at nyx.net
Thu Feb 22 12:04:17 EST 2001


> Dave,
> Not everyone on the list is on a PC or MAC, some universities, including mine,
> still don't support a single program and so a number of folk on this list use pine,
> elm, or even heaven forfend SMPT and a dumb terminal.  In order to accomadate
> everyone on the list, the protocols for the list are to send our messages in plain
> text, so that no matter the platform, the program, or the location in the world,
> everyone may participate.

Agreed.  I believe I said that I send mine in plain text and one of the 
things I like about Pegasus is that it defaults to plain text.  I have a 
Unix machine (Linux actually, same thing only different) in my 
home network, and when I read mail on it I use elm (less resource-
intensive than pine), so I'm well familiar with what you describe.  I'm 
trying to push the Pegasus people to either do a port to Linux/Unix 
or let me do it, but so far they won't budge.  Oh well.
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated."  C. S. Lewis



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