On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:26:27AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 05:03, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Isn't the onus on you as the proponent of HTML to sell it to the rest of > > us? Specifically, what is the advantage of HTML for email? What can you > > communicate with HTML that you can't with plain text? > > > > Plain text has served email well for a couple of decades or more and I > > still can't see any reason to change. > > I'm not really trying to sell it. I'm trying to find out why other > people dislike it, and dispel any myths or half-truths about it.
Well, mostly it is unnecessary. It also annoys me because I have to wait a second or so for mutt to call lynx to render it back to plain text. It's true that it helps to fuel the spam filter though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
