From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Mon 03 Sep 2001 - 17:11:28 IST
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:59:15PM +0100, Jerry Walsh wrote:
> At 16:52 03/09/01 -0400, Ruairi Newman wrote:
> >Been receiving many e-mails lately from people who use MS-Outlook and don't
> >Want to disable html in their settings for various reasons.
> Outlook does have the option of marking people in its address as
> "prefers plaintext mail" ... have you thought about this or is it
> impractical ?
dunno about ruairi, but it's been the experience of myself and several
others at work that instructing outlook users on how to use the "advanced
features" of their mail client is somewhat akin to teaching fish to walk.
it's incredibly hard and for some reason - successful or not - at the
end of the process it's *you* who looks like an idiot.
kevin
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