>Oh no, it is because I have had to wade through the Novel emails that I 
>posted my previous rant (new one to follow).  I can understand saying that 
>Novel bought SuSE, but the problem is many postings have departed from that 
>thread to talk about how bad / great Netware is, or how bad / great (how 
>one can say great  is beyond me) Microsoft products are.   

Agreed, it did stray a bit there. BTW, Novell has two 'l', that might just be your spell check 
though...

>Okay, fine, Novel may either do a good job with SuSE, or they may make a 
>fine mess of it.  Linux will go on whether SuSE or RedHat screw things up 
>or not.  Lets talk about things Linux and get on with life. 

Fine, you start.

>As for posting in HTML, well, lets blame that on the Notus Lotes (running 
>under WINE) client I have to use hera at IBM.

FYI: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html#lotus

Lotus Notes R5
By default all mail in Lotus Notes is in the Notes Rich Text Format but may be set to MIME. 

Choose File/Mobile/Edit Current Location 
Select the mail tab 
In the field, "Format for messages addressed to Internet addresses", select MIME Format instead of 
Rich Text Format. 
To send mail or news postings in plain text or HTML or both: 

Choose File/Preferences/User Preferences 
Click the Mail and News Icon 
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