Jose' Matos wrote: > On Monday 21 November 2005 17:26, Helge Hafting wrote: >> Sure, people insist on ascii/unicode email with no formatting. >> I can write justified email in html, but html is usually very >> unpopular on open-source lists due to all the people using >> non-html capable mailreaders. > > That is not the point and most of the people use capable html readers. > Even most of the text based programs are html capable. I can found > several of the reasons here: > > http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
I think that the *real* point is that this is a religious issue. If you write to an email list asking for help yet use html then you are likely to be ignored by those who have taken the religious position that html email is evil. Since this religion is followed by a very large percentage of Open Source developers, you're removing many of those best able to answer your question from your pool of answerers. It sort of defeats your purpose for writing in the first place --- to ask for help. The most coherent reason I've found to justify this religion is that html email totally screws up many mail archiving softwares. Maybe that's a reason to improve these softwares, but that doesn't really help us now. Not posting html is today's solution. Having said that, who said that religions need to be coherent? -- Angus
