Next LUG meet: 11 Oct 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI Mech Dept
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:25:42PM +0530, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
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With an attitude like that, Linux will remain a geek's OS and stay 
confined to the sidelines of comuting history. If you want to see Linux 
grow, it needs more users and support from users. That will not happen 
till you are willing to tollerate so called "1000 idiots" and help them 
become something more than just idiots, make them better users.
    

Using text-based email doesn't make anyone a geek. At the same time, using
GUI based HTML email doesn't make anyone a newbie. I vote for blocking HTML
for the simple reason that it's not too hard to deal with and the
advantages, that others on the list have so ably described, are not
insignificant.
At my university, we have virtually everyone using pine in the administrative 
offices. Using pine is a brain-dead job and I've succesfully got people, using 
computers for the first time when they're 40, to use pine. If people can cope 
with pine, navigating through a few options in their favorite email program 
shouldn't be hard.

Not directly related to this topic, but still relavent :

I use a Palm m130 PDA. It comes with a software called "Palm Email". It is a software on the Palm OS that syncs with the outloook / outlook express and other popular windows email clients and puts the emails on the PDA so that I can read and reply when travelling. The interesting thing here is that being a PDA and therefore living with low resources, it has only text based emails support. However, that does not make my html mails unreadable. What the software does is to read the html tags, converts it into a relavent text format.

Surely there must be such functions already available for text based email clients in linux also. 

Regards
Saswata