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[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

> How about Netscape's mail?  It's earned some critical acclaim, and my mom
> actually uses it!  You can't get any better at displaying HTML or images
> either.

There is the minor problem that convinced me to  stop  using  it:   I
found  that,  no  matter what I did, it would suddenly send html even
though I'd told it to always send plain text.  And it didn't  ask  me
when it did this.  If all her friends use html-enabled email readers,
maybe it's ok.  If not, you might spend  a  lot  of  time  repeatedly
trying to figure out how to get it to stop doing that.

In particular, I never allow netscape to send to any mailing list. It
embarrassed me one too many times ...

(And yes, I do know about Edit ..  Preferences and the "Messages" and
"Formatting"  subwindow  to  "Mail & Newsgroups", so don't tell me to
try them.  They don't always do what the setting say.)

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