On Jul 17, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Bob Whiton wrote:
At 5:16 PM -0500 7/17/10, Eric Herbert wrote:
,,, reason that HTML and Rich Text are suddenly taboo?
Nothing sudden about it. List rules for LEM lists have always
required it <http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml>, try
reading them.
For those of you arguing that anyone's machine can display HTML and
styled text, that's not the point. One of the posts that triggered
this came through in huge blue letters on my system. In the past,
some posters have sent HTML that displayed as fine print only a
lawyer could love. The point of using plain text is to allow each
subscriber control display parameters at his/her end as best suits
them, rather than to force them to wade through annoying or
unreadable fonts.
Try being considerate of others, it works wonders.
One of the reasons for using plain text is conservation of bandwidth
as some of us are still on dial up, <spit>.
I believe that is also the reason for the tradition of doing so going
all the way back to...
All plain text does is default to a non-proportiona font family such
as courier. IOW, an "I" takes up the same space as a "W" etc.
Just makes things run faster for those of us still stuck in the slow
lane..
JT
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