On 12/6/03 7:53 PM, "Gary Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Safe? Who knows. > > Completely ridiculous? Yes. Make a web page and send folks a link. > > I have safely and joyously deleted all incoming HTML email for years -- > thanks to Entourage's rules. (Well, honestly, from mail lists any HTML is > stripped by rule+script, so I do get a plain Jane version from the few > weirdos who send HTML mail to mailing lists.) > > Never see it, never send it, and never had a problem. :) You've probably deleted hundreds of messages from some very nice people who don't share your (not uncommon) quasi-religious attitude concerning HTML. Lots of people I know send email only in - usually quite innocent and often attractively formatted - rich-text-type HTML. There are some mailers out there which use HTML as the default too. I don't mind getting these messages at all myself. You've probably been seen as exceedingly rude by the people who wrote you and never got an answer, and you also may have lost some valuable communication with them. There's nothing to be so smug about, just because you don't approve of their liking to use bold and italics, maybe a bit of color. Do you throw out snail mail letters unread when you don't approve of the sender's stationery letterheads? I'm not sure I even believe you. If you're telling the truth, then you've missed every AppleScript that I and most other scripters here have sent in, since I always send them in HTML so long lines won't break and confuse people pasting them into their script editors. It's great to have a mailing list that allows HTML so I can do this. The AppleScript formatting (color, style, font) makes them easier to read too. As you can see I usually use plain text for other messages, but I don't mind when people send in HTML messages. I'd find it both puritanical and overly controlling to tell other people how they should express themselves in print, and foolish to refuse to read their messages just for that reason. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
