On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Chris Anderson wrote:

> In MY humble opinion, Plain/Text has had its day, and is long due to be
> relegated to the history books.  You may quibble about the pro's and con's
> of HTML vs RTF vs whatever, but the point of email is communications.  And
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Exactly, and this is precisely why plain text is the lowest common
denominator. Just because plain text was the only medium of choice back in
the 70s shouldn't relegate it to the history books. It worked then and
still works now.

Communication is all about getting *information* sent back and forth.
Whether you embelish it to look cute with bolding, underlining etc., adds
nothing to the information content, it just bloats the message to a size
much larger than it should be, wastes bandwidth and detracts from
interoperability.

Keep the cute marked-up text for Web pages and local Micro$loth
proprietary email systems.

> there are better ways to communicate than via plain text.

Like?

Scotty
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