On Monday 12 September 2011 20:24:13 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> We aim to provide our users with what they want.  Philosophically there is
> no problem with adding HTML support (through an as-of-yet unknown
> technical means ;-))--in the TDE style of doing things there would be a
> configuration option to shut off the HTML reply feature.

as marvin already wrote: no problem when OFF ist the default :)

> Also, I would be careful about bashing Microsoft in terms of the features
> offered.  While I do not like Micro$oft, and I absolutely hate what they
> did to Windows over the past couple of releases, Windows 2000 and XP were
> workhorse operating systems that still do things that Linux can't.

sure, there are always things that are only (or better) available in one 
environment than in another (true even for windoze ;-) )
same goes vice versa (features only available in linux, NOT in any windoze 
flavour).
and these are far more.
at least for me.

werner