Lee Larson wrote: > On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 11:44 AM, Nelson Helm wrote: > >> The weekly digests I get are filled with repeats, (each e-mail >> containing it's predecessors) and html code, which together makes >> them almost incomprehensible. > > > I think daily digests are more in order. The html code is the fault of > people who use html mail when they shouldn't. (I never use styled mail > when I don't know for sure that the receiver can handle it. Plain text > is appropriate 99% of the time.) > --- > Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville > Phone: 502.852.6826 FAX: 502.852.7132 > Your reaction to this HTML thing in e-mail sounds synonymous with the movie Pleasantville, which is currently being shown on cable. I personally think it should be left up to the sender of the e-mail on how they want to format it. Both Netscape and Outlook Express are free downloads and recognize both plain text and HTML. If anyone has a mail program that can't read HTML, then let them download one of these if they want.
I remember a while back when frames were first introduced to the internet. I would go to some address and a page would open, declaring that if my browser couldn't handle frames, I couldn't visit their web site. I thought that was odd. I was under the impression that the whole idea of putting up a web site was to get as many people to visit and see what was there. Anyway, my reaction was "I didn't want to see your stupid web site anyway!" and went on my way. (That's one reason why I still use simple HTML code for my web site). I was working with frames in ClarisWorks v2 long before it was introduced to the internet, but these people made it sound like it was a revolutionary new concept in desktop computing. If you're referring to those e-mails that show all the HTML coding, and you have to read between the lines to decipher it, I think that's because the people that sent those e-mails didn't know what they were doing. A good rule to follow is, if you're experimenting with e-mail, send it to yourself first. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Spreadsheet Layout & Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html remacs at optonline.net <mailto:remacs at optonline.net> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020917/7a37e1ff/attachment.html
