Well, I will add one vote to the plain text side. I use a dinosaur of a
system and a mail reader (mush on a unix shell) and I like them.
Its FAST, I use the keyboard and don't have to chase rodents across
the screen, and it does what I tell it to do, not what some GUI
programmer decided was the way they thought it should work.
It wraps lines where I want to, not where the GUI wants to.
And I have a powerful & flexible editor to use (well, its vi but at
least its a "real" editor).
For the benefit of the HTML proponents, here is what I see in those
messages:
On Feb 1, 6:59pm, "Stephen C. Nill, J.D." wrote:
} Subject: Re: Stopping HTML, and attachments
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} Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
}
} I'm late to this thread but thought since I have an exactly opposite
} view to the views expressed on this thread, I might as well stick my neck out.
} I absolutely love emails that utilize HTML because they can provide a richness
} to the communication that plain text cannot.
}
} Pet Weiss did the best job of succinctly summarizing reasons why so
} many
} listowners seem to abhor HTML in emails, so I might was well pick on his
} replies:
}
} Pete Weiss wrote:
}
} >Because:
} >
} >1) some email clients sent simultaneous straight ASCII AND HTMLized text:
} >the recipients certainly don't need to receive both
}
} But this format allows an email client to read the message, either in
} its living color version (HTML) complete with various fonts, colors and sizes,
} or, if an older client, in its straight text version.
}
} >2) some email clients don't understand HTML
}
} I don't know the percentage, but it must be small and growing
} smaller by
} the day. Gad, folks can get Netscape or Explorer for free!
}
} The question is, do we dumb down everybody else for the sake of a few
} behind-the-curve subscribers? Or do we move forward with the technology and
} all that it promises?
}
} >3) archives become greatly expanded
}
} The growth of archives due to HTML is miniscule as compared with the
} ever-expanding disk drive sizes. I just picked up a 12 Gig hard drive for
} $250. It would take years and years of archiving just to fill it up even half
} way (okay, I didn't actually do the math so if you want to nail me here, go for
} it).
}
} >4) many folks would sooner not have attachments since they may not be
} >able to process them
}
} Again, why dumb down the works for the sake of a few who refuse to keep
} up?
}
} Well, just thought I'd stir the old pot. Kinda needed the break. ;-)
}
}
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} <html>
} <x-tab> </x-tab><tt><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=7 color="#800000">I</font></b></tt>'m
} late to this thread but thought since I have an exactly <i>opposite
} </i>view to the views expressed on this thread, I might as well stick my
} neck out. I absolutely love emails that utilize HTML because they
} can provide a richness to the communication that plain text cannot.
} <br>
} <br>
} <x-tab> </x-tab>Pet Weiss
} did the best job of succinctly summarizing reasons why so many listowners
} seem to abhor HTML in emails, so I might was well pick on his
} replies:<br>
} <br>
} Pete Weiss wrote:<br>
} <br>
} <font color="#0000FF"><i>>Because:<br>
} ><br>
} >1) some email clients sent simultaneous straight ASCII AND HTMLized
} text:<br>
} >the recipients certainly don't need to receive both<br>
} <br>
} </font></i><x-tab> </x-tab>But
} this format allows an email client to read the message, either in its
} living color version (HTML) complete with various fonts, colors and
} sizes, or, if an older client, in its straight text version. <br>
} <br>
} <font color="#0000FF"><i>>2) some email clients don't understand
} HTML<br>
} <br>
} </font></i><x-tab> </x-tab>I
} don't know the percentage, but it must be small and growing smaller by
} the day. Gad, folks can get Netscape or Explorer for free!
} <br>
} <br>
} <x-tab> </x-tab>The
} question is, do we dumb down everybody else for the sake of a few
} behind-the-curve subscribers? Or do we move forward with the
} technology and all that it promises?<br>
} <br>
} <font color="#0000FF"><i>>3) archives become greatly expanded<br>
} <br>
} </font></i><x-tab> </x-tab>The
} growth of archives due to HTML is miniscule as compared with the
} ever-expanding disk drive sizes. I just picked up a 12 Gig hard
} drive for $250. It would take years and years of archiving just to
} fill it up even half way (okay, I didn't actually do the math so if you
} want to nail me here, go for it).<br>
} <br>
} <font color="#0000FF">>4) many folks would sooner not have attachments
} since they may not be<br>
} >able to process them<br>
} <br>
} </font><x-tab> </x-tab>Again,
} <u>why dumb down the works</u> for the sake of a few who refuse to keep
} up? <br>
} <br>
} <x-tab> </x-tab>Well, just
} thought I'd stir the old pot. Kinda needed the break.
} <font color="#FF0000">;-)<br>
} <br>
} </font><br>
} <div><x-tab> </x-tab>Stephen
} C. Nill, J.D.</div>
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