Subject: Blinking and coloured text

From: [email-masked] (Ong Patricia S. K.)
Date: 18 Jul 1995 02:03:22 GMT

Hi,

How to I go about to have blinking and/or coloured text in in email? Are 
there any things that I need to set-up in PINE? Or are there any special 
keys to used? Please kindly let me know. Thanks in advance.

Patricia

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:06:31 -0400

> keys to used? Please kindly let me know. Thanks in advance.

    As a polite suggestion, please do not do this!  People who come up 
with cute blinking or colored text in their messages imbed special 
control characters.  The only problem is that there is no standard for 
these things, and different terminals and PCs react differently to them.  
What may look cute or eye-catching to one recipient may cause another 
recipient's terminal to go crazy!

Paul
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