On Monday 10 November 2003 19:01, Ben Barrett wrote: > Funny how people feel "savvy" by using modern technology! > Plaintext obviously doesn't meet the requirements of most > marketing campaigns. When you're autonomously defining such > "standards", it is hard for the rest of the world to take a cue > from YOU = 0
Ben, Your insults and condescending attitude are neither amusing nor appropriate. Neither are they welcome. For the record, I am certainly NOT "autonomously defining" a standard. It's been an unwritten rule in cyberspace from the beginning that HTML-formatted email is considered rude. As an example, I might point you to the following site: http://www.american.edu/cas/econ/htmlmail.htm Wherein the author states, among other things, that " Dislike of HTML email is so wide-spread and the drawbacks of HTML email are so well-known that it may seem surprising that there is no RFC addressing it directly.... Nevertheless, RFC 1855 ... clearly presumes that plain text is the standard for email." > In fact, almost all (gui) email clients *will* > receive and display HTML emails -- some even do nifty things > like cleaning up the HTML, removing script code segments, > etc... so it seems to me that HTML email is indeed a standard. This is the same logic that would make M$ products, with their notorious violation of standards, a "standard." Just because something is popular does not make it a standard. > out there, and if you want to, uh, say, get a job, there is a > certain amount of conforming to *others'* standards that you > might encounter, dare I say... Personal attacks are NOT appropriate here or on any other forum. This is the second time in a year that you have publicly insulted my intelligence on a mailing list, and I'm not going to put up with it any more. From now on, your name will be a permanent part of my filter. If you wish to discuss this further -- IN PRIVATE, please -- I'm sure you can figure out how to get hold of me by other means. Ken _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
