Nick replied to Bernie,
S> ... you probably have no idea of what my vision, screen, or monitor
S> resolution is like. Therefore, it is terminally stupid for you to select
S> fonts and colors that look good on your screem, to you, and then impose
S> them on me, and any mail system that allows you to do this to all of the
S> recipients of a mailing list is terminally broken.
["On your screem" ... that's priceless, as if to say that plain text is for
discourse, rich text for hysteria.]
S> I have set fonts, colors,
S> and sizes that work for me. Html mail might arrive spread all over
S> my screen, or, more often than not, it arrives in a tiny font with
S> background colors that make it unreadable to me, unless I get my reading
S> glasses out, which I normally do not wear while using a computer.
Likewise Phil wrote about plain text,
B> The reader can change the read preferences to
B> what ever kind of background and text is easy on the eyes, and the column
B> width problem mentioned by J C Lawrence need not necessarily be a
B> problem, if the sender chooses not to wrap the lines.
That's what is nice about flowed format (except for its conflict with the
classic signature separator): it delineates where the sender wants the text
presented exactly as sent and where the recipient (or the recipient's
software) is welcome to reformat it to taste. Not so for HTML.
