Re: OT: HTML (WAS Re: [APML] Film Questions)

[George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>]

The mail reader is the resident software on the machine in most cases.
In the case of Yahoo or Hotmail the reader is actually your web browser.
I believe that buried somewhere in the user preferences for those two is
a feature that allows you to shut off html.
In your case it would be a setting in outlook express, just where it is
I can't remember as I use Netscape. Some of the linux and unix mail
readers do not support html and they get the gobledy-gook on their
screen. Same goes for the poor souls still using VMS.

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

Alan Voetsch wrote:
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> --- George Anderson <georgea@cam.org> wrote:
> > Not all people are using a mail reader that decodes the html coding.
> > The messages are then loaded with commands that make it much harder
> > to
> > read, and take up a lot more space, this can be a problem in some
> > areas where you pay by the byte for e-mail.
> 
> What part of all this is the mail reader? Is that part of (in my case
> it would be yahoo) peoples e-mail provider, or is it in Outlook Express
> or Internet Explorer (once again, my case)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan
> 
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