Although I've now upgraded to Eudora Light 3.0.1, which is very good and
handles all sorts of formatting, I strongly support all those wanting to
keep to plain ASCII text.  The main reason is that ALL applications,
printers and users understand this format.  Sure, it's possible to do all
sorts of clever things with html, rtf and the rest, but those "standards"
aren't set in stone, and it's very easy to find that something is missing,
stopping you reading anything at all.

If the vast majority can agree to keep to ASCII plain text, could there
also be some general acceptance of making initial posts have a line length
of about 70 characters?  This means that even after they have been subject
to several nested responses, the line length stays below the magic 80.
Leading spaces (except in quoted code, where they must be retained) are
also an irritation - although I accept this is probably purely personal.

Generally speaking I'm a slow upgrader.  I'm still using Word 2.0 (and
haven't yet found a significant reason to upgrade, even if money wasn't a
factor).  My Win95 CD-ROM sat on my desk for almost a year before I ran it.
 I don't object to new things on principle, and I'm delighted with the
Eudora upgrade.  My objection is that many upgrades actually take the user
several steps backwards.


Tim Forcer               tmf@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Department of Electronics & Computer Science
The University of Southampton, UK

The University is not responsible for my opinions