From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta06bw.bigpond.com ([139.134.6.96]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16WsJC-00082W-00 for ; Sat, 02 Feb 2002 00:01:50 -0500 Received: from data.home ([144.135.24.84]) by mta06bw.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GQW3N400.H0X for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:09:04 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-136-137-64.qld.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.137.64]) by bwmam06.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0h 47/627289); 02 Feb 2002 15:01:52 Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16WsJ9-0006Lb-00; Sat, 02 Feb 2002 15:01:47 +1000 Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:01:47 +1000 From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: html mail... In-Reply-To: <003c01c1ab5b$ab8d6ab0$6801030a@greatmachine> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi: As has been sited already, many many mailing lists prohibit HTML messages, and some even flatly refuse to accept them. HTML provides no functional advantage over plain text. If your client cannot process properly formed URLs in the message text, then this is a limitation of your client, not of plain text. Pine and many other clients will allow you to click a URL written in plain text in an E-mail message. Geoff.