Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

Ben Bucksch wrote:

>Ilmari Karonen wrote:
>> Actually, I think giving the user a choice to view everything as
>> preformatted text (with automatic links and such still applied) would
>> be a very useful feature. I know I'd use it.
>
>I forgot to mention: You not only have the choice to do so, it is the
>default. We need the pre detection only for the case, the user decided
>to view his messages in a proprotional font.

Does this also mean the default for sending a Usenet-message is
plain text instead of text/HTML?

If so, this would bridge the gap between newby users and Use-
netiquette IMHO. The common newby-flame is bashing him/her
for posting in text/HTML... and MS can't be held responsible
solely for that. (Just talking about talk-newsgroups here)

If not, did Netscape (or the other major player for that matter)
ever consider that a "Usenetter" is different from a "Maildork"?
IMHO it would be an improvement if you'd distinguish
between those two target groups. For News: text = OK, for
e-mail: all formats will do. Just because talking to a friend
isn't as drastic as YELLING TO THE WORLD,.. duologue.

You were explicitly not the Mozilla "spokesman", but are you
willing to comment on the above?

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mic