| David missed my point about Outlook Express.
I wasn't shooting at it, Tom.
| Of course it CAN be reliably set to send plain text,
John's and my point was that quite a few people who think they've managed to
set it that way have not. That neither misses nor contradicts yours.
| in fact when captured in enemy territory (like an in-law's PC :))
By that definition my PC must be enemy territory as well, yet OE thrives
here.
| However, real users in the real world tend to end up LIKING the formatted
| stuff ...
(Nice of you to call yourself and me imaginary.) I find that only a handful
of users actually like it; rather, most don't even realize it's there or
that it needn't be. That's why they don't know that there's anything
different about it, much less that there are downsides to the differences.
I've even played off that ignorance: someone writes to me in a tiny or
too-fancy font or sets foreground and background colors that are barely
distinguishable from one another, and I write back that my old eyes couldn't
make out the message and ask them to re-send it in plain text. They don't
know that I could easily view the source and read it that way (and probably
already have). This particular group, though, do realize that they had made
selections, because no mail client's defaults are that illegible.
