This goes off the topic a bit, but the entire post shows the problem with html email.
On 11/26/04 2:21 PM, "Stephen Rayment" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Paul. > Nobody in the business world uses plain text email any more � unless they are > responding to an incoming plain text!! I whole-heartedly disagree about nobody. I, and many others, fully dislike HTML email. It's much harder to read. I often have to edit the mail in order to make the characters readable, and I cannot follow who said what, wading through all the indenting and colors and fonts. I see others losing track of points too. I know I am not alone in this. HTML may be ok for a single hell and maybe a top reply, but it's awful for threads. I honestly cannot say that I love trying to read tiny print. Nor do I appreciate the email one organization leader sends out: multicolored and with a font so big that 6 words tops fit on my 15" screen set to 1280x854. Here's a great work flow: double-click the message, hit Edit, type a space, save - now I can read it. Great business. I believe the fact is that most people simply use their apps with the default settings. If HTML was not the default, many would not use it and it would not occur to them to use it. Unfortunately, it has long been the default in Outlook for Windows I saw brilliant IT folks not be able to find a setting to change in in Exchange back in '99. I saw people stuck with, not preferring, html. Whatever you send to me, you get plain text back. A slightly different result of html email is the html that yahoo groups puts out. Try to select a phrase then reply. You cannot. It quotes the entire message, ads and all. Horrid. -- Deborah Shadovitz � http://www.shadovitz.com Mac Specialist: Training & Tech Support, Author, Instructor, Speaker GoLive Specialist: including <http://macdesignonline.com/golive.html> MacAddict Contributing Editor, O'Reilly Network author, Mac Design Columnist Creator of the Mac Gathering: <http://www.macgathering.com> � next 4/2-3/05 -- 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/>
