Personally, I don't give a damn. What is annoying is over 100 messages debating it eating my time and bandwidth.
Mikeal Palulis Kallisti Medias On Jul 18, 2010, at 11:36 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 -- 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
