--On Friday, July 05, 2002 11:36 AM -0400 Bernie Cosell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't the place to engage in a side thread on HTML email, but I'll > just mention that "plain text" email is really the wave of the past. > Almost from the day email was born, a *LOT* of folk didn't like 'plain > text'. The programmers, who were pretty used to plain text for source- > code, were pretty comfortable with plain text, but few others were and > the quest for something better began almost from the outset.
And I'll just mention that when this subject comes up, we debate it - in PLAIN TEXT - without so much as a second thought. The truth is that there is a direct correlation between how focused a list or a thread or a group of email conversationalists are on an external topic of interest - ANY topic, even the topic of formatting mail - and how much they could give a s*** about whether what they read and write is in italic bold Algerian pink-on-puce.
