Re: HTML Based Email (AOL 6.0)

[murr rhame]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> You're fighting a battle that might be noble, but is long
> lost. All you're really going to do down the road is convince
> folks to not bother with your lists, except your own
> increasingly limited brotherhood of already-convinced
> like-thinkers.

They said radio would kill off newspapers 75yrs ago.  The
validity of ASCII-only depends on the style, content and
intrinsic value of the list in question Chuq.  I only accept
ASCII and I don't anticipate changing in the near future.  If
people start to bail, complain in large numbers or another list
on the same topic uses HTML and attracts a significant number of
subscribers, I'll consider a change.  Until then, my experience
says ASCII is fine for what I do.  I have no objection to other
lists accommodating HTML or any other format the admin chooses to
allow.  Just don't try and tell me ASCII is dead.  It works for
me.


- murr -