On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 00:55:00 +1000, Ben Hood wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2001, at 22:21, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> egroups does not send email in HTML format. The only advertising you get
>> is a two or three line text ad with every message received. Of course an
>> individual subscriber to a list may have the option of turning on HTML
>> email with his POP3 client, but other list members would probably flame the
>> person for doing so and they will try to set him straight on the general
>> social unacceptability of sending HTML email.
> But what when the majority of the users of said list are Outlook
> users? Most of them wouldn't even know about the hidden HTML,
> much less care. ("It works, let it be")
> I was on one such list (and I too used Outlook before it realised I
> didn't like it and it wouldn't let me use it - This is at uni where it's
> preinstalled etc)
> As much as I hate HTML mail, it is the accepted norm. Of course
> that doesn't mean I won't try and stop it. (BTW I found the option in
> Pegasus to _always_ turn off richtext, so what happened in survpc
> list won't happen again ;)
It is not my impression that HTML email is the accepted norm. Most of
the HTML email I receive is from spammers, who of course don't even care
about what is acceptable behavior, and also from normal people who are just
newbies who don't realize what they are doing and haven't yet learned
about what I consider the accepted norm. HTML email would be considered
"normal" only among a circle of newbies, the novices, and the inexperienced,
and the people who mistakenly think it is cool just because everybody does
it. Of these, most of them will come to recognize their errors and they
will conform and grow up to be respectable netizens.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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