Re: Apple II Software and Support --- FREE

[lwalkerN0SpaM@interlog.com (Lawrence Walker)]

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998 17:13:52 GMT, Stavros Robert Karatsoridis
<skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> wrote:

>LJSILICON <ljsilicon@aol.com> wrote:
>>>If a message is formatted in HTML, I just simply delete it without <BR>
>>>even bothering to read it.<BR>
>>><BR>
>>>--Otter<BR>
>>><BR>
>
>> That's nice to know. A lot of browsers have HTML capabilities that will allow
>> them to click and go right to the site. I guess yours doesn't.
>
>> Thanks for sharing...
>
>At the risk of sounding like other people are, I should point out that
>there are a lot of people using shell accounts on an Apple II to read this
>newsgroup.  They don't have the nice graphical browsers that those of us
>with Macs and PCs have and use.  Therefore, it is nicer to not use HTML
>tags in this particular newsgroup.  (I'm not trying to sound insulting or
>anything--I'm just trying to explain their reasoning in a much nicer manner)
>
>Stavros

 I also just delete the html msgs. I use an offline reader as, I would
suspect, the majority of non-newbies do. And both my O-L reader and
mailer program can be clicked to go to a site if I CHOOSE to. I find
the capabilities of browsers for mail or newsgroups lacking.
It's a total pain to wait for Netscape to load it's add-ons ,
bookmarks , etc. just to get a lamer msg. with a catchy title. I would
suggest it's NOT netiquette to use html in newsgroups , period .

ciao    larry

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