On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Chris Eddy wrote:

> Andrew; It is always awkward to create those darned ascii schematics.  It
> strikes me that we can HMTL the schematic into the Email.  I get some update
> Email thing every month from Netscape, and they somehow manage to embed
> complete web style content into their Email message.  One would have to
> further assume that most of the participants in our Piclist are running
> their Email software under windows with a fairly recent version of Netscape
> or from that other company can display the content.  Ahh, I just can't
> remember the name of that other company that makes the other popular browser
> right now.  Nevertheless, if a consensus were reached, one could endevour to
> do HMTL schematics.  Some know how to use HMTL editors quite well, others
> such as myself do not object to learning a new skill every now and then.

        Please NO!  html, or bmp, or jpeg in a mime enclosure shure, but
don't make the assumption that everyone uses a browser for a mail reader.
HTML within a message is an evil, evil thing for those that use an actual
mail reader, rather than a browser.  Turns a message from one page of nice
text to 5 pages of unreadable trash.

        I would suggest (though I like ascii schematics just fine) either
attaching a bmp, jpg, html, etc to a message, or putting the files up on a
w3 server and just posting the address.

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