On 12/31/07 1:22 AM, Mike Dano wrote: > Whether you like it or not I can assure you that HTML mail is the future. I > predict that in ten years it will account for over 90% of the mail that you > receive in your inbox.
Ten year? It won't take THAT long. It's more than 90% now, unfortunately. However, that wasn't the question the OP asked. The question was which was better, and I believe I -- and others -- have offered evidence that Plain Text is "better" -- in fact the overwhelming vote of people who have chimed in on this thread is for Plain Text. > You may not like the way that people abuse it, or like the fonts that people > try to force upon you today, but those issues will be resolved as the > technology matures. I never said they wouldn't be resolved; however, I believe the OP's question was about *now*, not the future. (Notice how emphasis can be made without needing HTML.) :¬) > I suggest embracing it sooner than later, otherwise your emails to your > grandkids may seem as funny to them as using a rotary phone. :) Please, be very careful when making assumptions about people's lives. I'm sterile, and have no children, so therefore no grandkids. It's a painful reality for me, and a subject you shouldn't joke about to someone you don't know. There are so many examples you could have used without getting that personal! > In regards to your comment about HTML email being disrespectful of fellow list > members, I find it equally disrespectful when plain-texter's bombard fellow > list members with obnoxiously long signatures/billboards. Perhaps this is the > real culprit of your bloated database. :) *Obnoxiously* long? Yet curiously smaller than if it was HTML. That's my point, and I thank you for helping me make it. The real culprit for my burgeoning database is *needless* HTML mail (did you know that your reply in HTML is twice the size of the exact same message in Plain Text?) as well as needlessly long quotes in replies (but that's a different dragon that needs a different sword and a different suit of armor, on a different day). I'm finished; you will have the last word. We'll continue to disagree, and I'll continue to be pleased with the robustness of Entourage's customizable plonk filters/rules. Happy New Year! peace, Linda (your favorite typesetter since 1984) -- _This Water Goes North_ by Dennis Weidemann (Linda's husband). Hardcover, nonfiction. 240 pages + 16-page color photo insert. Order at <http://www.thiswatergoesnorth.com>. Thank you for supporting small/independent and self-publishers! -- 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/>
