Hmm, how about forwarding that to Billy boy in Redmond? Greg On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:06:12PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > Yeh, Raul, that's true, very true, but email is supposed to be email > and HTML is supposed to be kept where it belongs, on the web. Maybe > I'm a purist, but darn it all, the Net has four main parts to it: > ftp, email, telnet and html. The Net is not sononymous with the web! > The web is on the net, but all the net is not the web. I just want > some kind of separation folks! Email is email and should, if really > taken to its final outcome, be run by engines and software that are > accessed via email messages, not via the web. But I preach in vain, I > preach in vain. People yack about The Web when they mean The Net. > People *will* send email in HTML because they don't know any better > way to do it, and Billy-Boy gates perpetuates the myth. "They don't > make email the way they used to..." said in an old quavery voice. > > Ann P. > > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
