On 12/6/03 10:00 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Safe? Who knows. That's client based, not a function of the mail format > > Completely ridiculous? Yes. Make a web page and send folks a link. Well, that's making a lot of assumptions about why someone would use HTML email. > > 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. :) That still doesn't make it bad. Just something you don't like. > > IMO, it is a spam tool, or a sign of a complete newbie using a MS-Win mail > client from which they don't even know that they are sending HTML. Every time I run into this elitest nonsense it just fries me. There are a ton of situations in which plain text won't work. Applescript, or any other codeing examples. The text coloring makes code FAR more easier to read, and if it didn't matter, then syntax coloring wouldn't be considered basic functionality for a programmer's editor. If you're trying to list things, the ability to do a proper list makes for more legible, not less legible communications. Proper indenting and tabs, (proper tabs are a tab character, not five spaces and hope your font doesn't muck up the aliignment.), again, help increase, not decrease clarity. Underlines, bolding, etc. Sure, there are a lot of aspects of HTML that are completely inappropriate for email, but that does not mean that ASCII is all you ever need. There are, like everything, good and bad aspects to HTML email, and a more reasoned response than knee-jerk elitism is called for. john -- Dr. Smith is associated with societies for the prohibition of cruel sports, recorder playing, and Welsh folk songs. >From the Yorkshire Post (U.K.) -- 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/>
