> I, too, do not like HTML-formatted mail and I think that it is rude to >send messages like that to public lists and newsgroups. Like those >animated ASCII signatures that were popular about ten years ago, HTML mail >looks clever and nifty the first ten times that you see it, IF you have the >capability to view it, and after that it gets old very fast. If you don't >have the correct mail client, terminal type, browser plug-in, sound card, >MMX processor, monitor, or cable modem, to receive the latest "enhancement" >to email, such things get old IMMEDIATELY. All this being said (and I also find emails containing html annoying), if the members of a mailing list agree that it's OK to use it there's no particular reason why they shouldn't. I would probably mention that the mailing list found html acceptable in the welcome message. LISTSERV should just treat the markup like ordinary text and send it through. -jwgh