On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:34:37 -0000, Randomthots
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Out of consideration for all the poor slobs living in technologically
underdeveloped countries I won't quote Marco's post but merely respond
to it.
What *I* get annoyed at is the attitude that just because some people in
the world pay for Internet by the byte, that it's somehow wrong in
principle to *ever* use technology like html e-mail. What if I want to
send a nicely formatted message -- complete with pictures of the kids --
to my sister in Washington? We both have fast, all-you-can-eat access,
decent computers, and up-to-date technology.
I agree... is like trashing monitors-TV because some part of the
population is visually impared and sound media like radio because some
part of the population is blah...
Once said that, I do believe is better to use text for security reasons in
the Windows world specially if you used clients such as Outlook. Since
Outlook uses the same engine of IE you are using the IE vulnerabilities
when 'surfing' your email. So I agree here that all outlook users should
disable HTML rendering.
Why can't someone post a message to this list asking how to do something
like that without getting a bunch of messages telling them that it's
morally wrong? That and the penguinistas with their noses in the air
about how e-mail is a textual medium by definition and html-mail is
therefore an abomination.
Then again there wa sthe answer already posted, I mean thats what a
mailing list is about, getting different answers because different people
is on. So you get the people saying is morally wrong and you get the
people that don't think is MORALLY wrong, and also you get the technical
answer if its going to work or not. I guess is up to you to choose which
answer suits your needs/interest.
When I post to a list like this I know I'm speaking to an international
audience using a wide variety of clients on a wide variety of operating
systems. Therefore I will post in plain-text as that is the lowest
common denominator medium. But why should I be limited to that for ALL
my communications?
Why can't people just answer the OP's question and leave the friggin'
politics aside???
I watched this discussion and I saw many people already posted straight
answers. If you miss them please go to the archives I think it was the
third email after Sophie.
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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