JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JH> Hello, Roy.
-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to CHARLES ANGELICH <=-

 RJT> Indeed.  I tend to think of email as a text medium,  and get rather
 RJT> irritated at those who default to presenting them in HTML.

 JH> I was about to say that even more annoying are those emails which
 JH> have embedded links to the internet, where you have to be online to
 JH> see the pix. - -   but I don't want all those image files
 JH> cluttering up my hard drive.

 JH> But these days,  emails are often much more than just a text medium
 JH> - - 

Yeah,  I guess...

 JH> I think our daughter must use Outlook for emails - she sometimes
 JH> sends us emails where there is a jpg or gif file embedded within
 JH> the text of the email.  I don't mind those, esp if it is a pic of
 JH> the grandkids :-D.

I can see where that would be useful,  particularly for people who weren't
conversant with doing things from a more technical perspective.

 JH> I also get some emails with PowerPoint Script files attached. 
 JH> There is a PPS reader available for download at Microsoft website. 
 JH> I think it is kinda neat to run those and see a "slideshow".

Hmm.  I have sort of mixed feelings about that stuff.

 JH> I've emailed to your new addy a sample of an email with an animated
 JH> (gif) attachment - - They can probably also have sound, but I
 JH> haven't ever bothered to install a soundcard on this particular
 JH> machine.

Nor have I,  on this one.

 JH> I think the most annoying emails I get are those where the msg has
 JH> been forwarded thru a chain of previous senders and nobody could
 JH> figger out how to save and reattach the attachment, and you have to
 JH> go down through about 8 different levels of sender's stuff before
 JH> you can finally get to the attachment.  My wife seems to get a
 JH> _lot_ of those from her old school chums - - - mostly AOL users.

Well see!  I guess if AOL were to get their software from m$ instead of
trying to use their own then people wouldn't have this problem!  :-)

Looking,  the one sender I was thinking of whose stuff always seems to
default to html isn't on AOL as I'd thought,  but on Yahoo,  or at least
that's the address I have for her.  I've been trying to deal with their
stuff,  and am bumping into walls there too.  One of the reasons I need to
try some other browsers here.

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