I know I should just let this slide, and no offense to Ms Roswell, et al,
but I have an anecdote:
First and last person to ask me to do that was the VP of my ISP. I laughed
and laughed, then offered to loan him my RedHat Linux CD, which includes a
copy of Netscape Communicator. And asked for all my money back.
It's not just Microsoft's fault; in the contest between form and function,
feature creep always favors form.
Bill Thoen wrote:
> Wouldn't that be nice, but most people nowadays either 1.) don't know
> that they are sending out HTML messages with screwy formatting (e.g.
> itty-bitty 4-point blue text), or 2.) don't care, or 3.) don't know how
> to change anything in their browsers anyway, or 4.) think the world
> should move with the times and non-Windows users don't signify... or
> some or all of the above.
>
> On the other hand, improvements to email such as HTML and MIME allow us
> to easily send messages with a much broader context. There's some good
> reasons. Messages with automatic text-wrapping are easier to read,
> adding color and images can provide more understanding (explaining a
> graphic problem is a LOT easier when you can use a picture!), and so on.
> It is better if you can assemble the larger amount of resources needed
> to support it all.
>
> The best of both worlds would be for people to use the appropriate
> medium for their message, but anything that makes email even harder for
> most people to use (like chnaging a setting) just isn't going to happen.
> Better move with the times... Microsoft needs to have something
> constantly getting more complicated or their programmers will nothing to
> do.
>
> But I thought you were reading all the MapInfo-L off one of those email
> web page services now. Isn't it all HTML there?
>
> - Bill Thoen
>
> Marjorie Roswell wrote:
> >
> > A request: Please turn off HTML in your sent email. It more than
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