On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:03:19PM -0400, Cory Myers wrote:
> >Worse IMHO, is customers/people/boneheads that have switched to
> >html-only
> >mail, just so they can force this font upon us, as they like it so
> >much.
>
> Or those who've switched to HTML-only mail for the purpose of
> delighting in formatting goodies. I'm not so miserly as to mind the
> waste of bandwidth (although there is that); it's the sheer
> unreliability of it that annoys me. The number of times I've advised
> clients to stick with plain text, since it won't end up garbled and
> mangled and is just as easy to send from web mail as anything else...
(continuing the topic drift)
In the middle of a long technical discussion about some sort of
development problem in a clunky API that the customer is misusing:
Me: I often become unclear as to who is saying what in these email
exchanges. Could you consider indenting or prefixing the text of
different speakers differently, as I do?
Them: Oh, your text is in blue. My mext is in green. The other
engineer's text I keep pasting in is in red.
I hope it is obvious that none of the text was any color but black in my
not-insane mail reader.
-josh
