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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:49:29 -0500 Philo said:
>I HATE html and rtf in email. I've written probably gigabytes of mail and
>usenet postings, all with the standard ASCII character set. While my tone
>may sometimes be misunderstood, I've never been *not* understood because I
>couldn't underline, color my text, or insert pictures. IMHO, it's giving
>those who don't have anything to say a chance to waste bandwidth to hide
>their lack of substance behind form.
I share your rant. E-mail is a text medium. Adding colors and lots HTML
only obscures the information being conveyed, no matter how well-intentioned
the author is. Color is also not universally supported on every computer in
existence and differenet computers with different monitors render colors
differently so when one computer setup might show bright yellow text as it
was intended, another might display it in a pale yellow that's barely visible
to the reader.
Of course, there are also many people, me included, who use only text viewers
to read e-mail. I use a plain text mail interface because its simple, more
reliable, and faster, than any graphical e-mail interface I have ever used,
and I have used most of them.
Stan Horwitz Internet: [log in to unmask] Bitnet: STAN@TEMPLEVM
Temple University -- Senior Consultant (My views are all mine!)
Manager of the Help-Net and Suggest lists and Listserv Postmaster.
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