> From: "NetQuick Mail Administration" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:25:59 -0500
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Please, no HTML e-mail
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Purist <vbg>
Either this or I am neurotic :) But since my posting yesterday, the little
wheel on my MS IntelliMouse (tm) has experienced far less mileage ;)
Although my posting read a bit like a rant, it seems like most list
subscribers made an effort to use plain text and I am *very* grateful for
this.
> Actually there are issues with some web based mail applications that
> display all of the html coding as well. It is some what of a common
> courtesy to send routine messages as plain text. If I might suggest, as a
> general rule of thumb that you save the HTML for the sales and marketing
> stuff.
Indeed, Kevin. Some Web-based messaging interfaces do not allow for a
"plain-text" option but I surmise that mail admins, the constituency that
this list targets, are probably not using Web-based e-mail messaging. As
for the "sales and marketing" people, I'd suggest that they include a
hyperlink to their stunning MS PowerPoint (tm) presentations rather than
using e-mail as the vehicle with the rich-text content embedded in the body
of the text. Just a personal bias :)
> If this applies to you please do the other list members a favor. I've
> not had any problem with it but I have a sting of customers who harass me
> over it if we send out HTML in our company Emails.
I take it that your use of "you" was in a general sense and not targeted to
me. I still feel that e-mail is for disseminating textual information, not
for the "*experience* this awesome posting". Okay, I'm a member of the
senior-citizen club as regards Arpanet/Darpanet/Internet, so I'm biased.
And to address your last comment more specifically, people may use mail
clients that are not equipped to handle HTML. Surely, this will come to
pass, everyone will be using MS Outlook (tm), but there will remain the case
where people are subscribed to discussion lists in digest form and they will
get truckloads of formatting codes for every reply -- and replies to
replies.
I'm simply trying to get back to the basics of what e-mail was designed for,
before MS and others deemed it a Good Thing to "empower" people with the
means to send rich-text-formatted e-mails stating "Me too" ;) I have
friends -- I do, oddly enough -- who send me questions that incorporate a
stationery theme and are written in some funky font. I chalk it up to
[compassionate] user-smitten-with-featuritis. I'm just suprised that mail
admins on this list often fall for the same trick. True enough, the mail
client's defaults are often geared towards rich text and the sender may not
know that s/he is sending KBs of formatting code. That's the point I was
trying to convey.
Cheers and best regards,
> Kevin Childers
--
Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 11:15 AM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Please, no HTML e-mail
>
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > Could list members make an effort to post their messages in plain text?
> I,
> > like many others, am subscribed in digest mode and it's getting to be
> > *really* annoying to have to scroll down several screenfuls for messages
> > that are posted using HTML or XML. It gets compounded when a thread
> > reproduces all previous messages in HMTL so that a "Me too" line carries
> > with it tons of formatting code from previous replies. Posting using
> plain
> > text only would also greatly reduce the size of the daily digests so
that
> > they would download faster and be less taxing on Ipswitch's list server
> ;)
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Guy
> > --
> > Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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