Subject: Re: please excuse MIME BS
To: Tyler Mitchell <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
From: Jaron Omega <inphrared@ephemeron.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/08/2000 13:23:08
And of course there is always telnet and SecureCRT.
*ching* my two cents.

Jaron Omega

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Tyler Mitchell wrote:

>Actually, correct me if I'm wrong anyone, but Pine can be obtained for
>Win32 (ie, Windows NT).  So you are certainly not "forced" to use
>Outlook.  There is also Eudora Light, Netscape's mailer, Pegasus Mail,
>etc, all of which I have used without HTML mail.
>
>On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Cliff Neighbors wrote:
>
>> apologies to all: I am forced to use MS Outlook on NT for email
>> which does allow selecting "plain text" message format, 
>> but apparently sends in MIME text/plain + text/html regardless.
>> since I examined the source to my previous message about memory limits
>> I now understand that the problem is Outlook behavior, not me failing
>> to select "plain text" format as I had assumed.
>> 
>> please don't flame me.  I promise to fix this situation or I will
>> (gladly) hurl my NT box out the plate glass window to the asphalt
>> below.  
>> 
>> regards,
>> 	-cliff-
>> 
>> ---
>> cliff neighbors
>> allegro networks, inc.
>> cliff@allegronetworks.com
>> 408-281-5532
>> ---
>
>-- 
>Tyler Mitchell
>
>Man, n.:
>	An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks
>e is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.  His hief
>occupation is extermination of other animals and his own pecies, which,
>however, multiplies with such insistent apidity as to infest the whole
>habitable earth and Canada.
>		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
>
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