At 03:37 AM 3/01/03 -0400, John A. Ardelli gelfling-at-syd.eastlink.ca wrote: > >IMHO, if there's going to be a standard for E-mail formatting, I think >it should be HTML. And why not? HTML is already the standard >formatting technique for the World Wide Web. It seems logical to me to >make HTML the standard formatting for E-mail as well.
Why not: because along with text styles, you get embedded images, or web bugs (links to images on the sender's site that let him know you've opened his spam), and all the wonderful scripts that give you the animated porno popups and audio come-ons we all know and love from unwarily clicking on a link, but now we can get simply by previewing an email. And of course the Outlook viruses that cost the world billions of dollars a year due to integration of HTML and email. Though Microsoft is the current standard bearer, I think Netscape actually the instigator of all this in an attempt to make their app an all-in-one Internet. Personally I use Eudora 3, which can make an attempt at displaying most formatted mail, but doesn't do tables or images. The canonical HTML-mail-is-evil page is at http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
