Dan wrote:
> Remember that the purpose of these LEM mailing lists is TECHNICAL > SUPPORT, not pretty animated icon cutsie email chatty please pass the > nail polish. > > I don't speak for the other techies on these lists... but wading thru > HTML-based emails, just like TOP POSTED and UNTRIMMED messages, is a > WASTE of my time. My time is very limited. I can view a couple of > pretty emails, and get lost in all the formatting added by each > replier, and botched along the way... Or I can quickly go thru whole > threads of well-formatted plain text - and provide technical answers. > Remember the part about the purpose of these lists???? > > Frankly, if you're dying to send pretty messages then go find a > service that's Forum based. Myself, I'll continue to hit cmd-D as > soon as I open a gaudy POS HTML email on these groups. I agree with Dan. I do not provide nearly as much help as he does, but if I must wade through html garbage, I will not even bother to read the list any more. What does HTML really gain anyone in email? As far as I can tell it is purposeless. Plain text is perfectly suited to email. There is absolutely zero reason html should even be supported in emails except the stupidity of whichever email client programmer first added it in a fit of moronic feature creep. And you are much more secure if you refuse to interpret html in email messages. My clients will never be allowed to interpret html. Some have called plain text outmoded. I say rather it was field tested. Folks on the internet spent a couple of decades establishing that well edited quoted text, bottom posting and plain text work most efficiently to facilitate clear communications. Some times old stuff is also stuff that was actually wisely established and it is old because it works really really well. Jeff Walther -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
