Subject: Re: Emailing the news From: meyer@newslink.org Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 22:42:55 PDT

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>If we sent HTML documents, anyone with a Web browser, such as Mosaic or
>Netscape, could read these email files. Many people have such browsers
>already and of course they're available for free to anyone who wants one.
>So the do-you-have-a-reader problem would seem to be no more difficult, and
>perhaps easier, with HTML documents than with any likely graphical
>alternative.

I strongly disagree, Stan. I asked a couple of "touchstone" Net users I know 
to open up a local file with their browsers. Neither could get the job done. 
Yes, I know. It's foolproof simple. But it completely baffled them. They see 
the browser only as a point-and-shoot online leaper.

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ERIC K. MEYER                    meyer@newslink.org 
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