[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

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In article <00bb7cdf$0$26803$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> Newsgroups => VMS; I don't frequent the alt.binaries.sex.pervsion-of-the-
>> month-club newsgroups so I have no need whatsoever for a graphical reader.
>
>That is because you get your fantasies/dreams from:
>
>> I sat in the Apple store at the mall
>> during the holidays as the rest of the family was shopped.  (I hate shop-
>> ping and the gout was acting up.)  Macs, MacBooks and MacBookPros were on
>> the way out the door faster than I could count them.
>
>
>:-) :-) :-)

That was reality, not fantasy.



>In terms of VMS Mail, it just isn't worth the trouble. However, using a
>GUI mail reader does require you go through the trouble of finding the
>config parameters to disable displaying of any HTML or other evil
>formats (including javascript).
>
>What I would like to see in GUI email clients is text-only by default,
>and you have a button to render the message in its full format when
>needed (for instancem, when you get an email from someone you know).

I have PLAIN-TEXT as the default in Evolution Mail under Ubuntu Linux.
It give me the option of viewing the HTML content (if available) and
the attachments but the message is text.

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