Hill, Brett wrote:
(!!Naively asking a question!!) Help me understand why a plain text email is so much better than an html one? Is it because your mail client doesn't view HTML? I've always been of the opinion that HTML emails "look" and "format" much cleaner/nicer. Besides the fact that they contain X times the amount of data a text email does, I don't see why everyone's always against them especially when most email viewers support HTML. Is it simply a trend carried down from the Usenet folksfrom the 60's, 70's, and 80's that makes this so popular?
I don't know if I'd call it a trend, but its certainly a carry-over from the days of keeping everything as simple/small as possible because of crappy MUA's and limited capacity on MTA's.
For some I think its a long-standing preference, and for others I tend to think its a form of brain washing because of the long standing mantra behind it.
As with the evolution of typefaces, I find it far easier to read text that is written in a non-monospace font. Although I know I can change my default /plain-text /font to something I would find more easily readable, that would not allow me to visually perceive when there is a difference in the underlying message content being plain or rich-text.
Anyhow, I'm not complaining, and I do try to comply/remember to post in plain-text and bottom quote instead of top-quote. Although, most of the communicating world has evolved into doing the opposite. I say most because there are far more users than there are admins. And the younger people coming up do not care or bicker about such things.
None of that is a jab. Its only an observation between being a user and being an admin. I could care less what people individually do. I don't see how its my right to tell people how to craft e-mails. I wouldn't do it to my users, so I certainly wouldn't do it to my peers.
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