Michael Edwards.
[Lawrence Yates:]
>One of the things I like about Edwards style is that he puts his name at the
>top of the e-mail so that we can see imediately from whom the message is sent
>rather than having to scroll up to the details or down to the signature. I
>find his style very clear. I find other styles clear as well.
Well, I'm glad to hear that someone thinks my style is acceptable. Thanks.
I really had wondered what my sin was.
>As for HTML, as I have mentioned before, my software does not give me the
>option - as far as I am aware, I have no control whatsoever over how my
>e-mails go out (unlike my previous provider) and once again, I must apologize
>for the inconvenience it causes.
It doesn't bother me. While I prefer plain text, all other things being
equal, I think the inconvenience of H.T.M.L. has been grossly exaggerated at
times, and objections to it sometimes seem to take on an ideological flavour. I
wouldn't want to exclude anyone who has to use H.T.M.L. for reasons outside
their control.
However, I would want to consider changing providers (if possible), if the
way they were set up enforced a style of e-mail I didn't like, or didn't let me
choose my own style, but dictated one to me. Is your account web-based,
Lawrence?
>I hate to suggest this after all the problems we have just had, but could the
>new server not be setup to strip html from messages?
If setting it like this would make it impossible for some people to post
because they have no choice but to use H.T.M.L., I would not support setting it
like this. But wouldn't setting it thus simply convert the message to plain
text, leaving the content untouched?
I know the Orchestra List is set up like this, and it seems to work, as far
as I can see. It's a Yahoo! list, and some lists there are set up to put, at
the top of each e-mail, an intensely irritating and offensively intrusive
advertising *graphic* (! - not just a few text lines of advertising at the
bottom). Even worse, some lists on Yahoo! seem to change all e-mail to H.T.M.L.
(complete with graphic) - even if you explicitly post in plain text. But this
doesn't seem to happen on the Orchestra List.
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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