-----Original Message----- From: Christopher E. Brown To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [OT] circuit diagrams >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. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > Christopher E. Brown (CB421) +(907) 357-5680 > > We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >I would have to agree with Chris Brown on this. Not everyone reads their mail in a browser. HTML attachments, even .gif, and .jpeg are in my opinion unsuitable for piclist. I've learned the hard way about reading the piclist on my Linux box...simply because of the 5-10 pages of garbage even the smallest html file attachment creates. The best solution would be either to ftp circuit schematics from a designated place or to post a URL. That way at least the person reading the piclist would have the choice to read his/her mail in the way that best suits him...without having to pray that someone hasn't attached .gifs, .bmps ,etc to what they thought was mail. Thanks and have a Safe and Merry Christmas, William Davis