And it came to pass that Myself wrote:
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> Ian Davey wrote:
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>> Myself wrote:
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>>>> And besides, more often than not, html mail contains ugly
>>>> fonts/colors and is spam.
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>>>
>>>
>>> Oh well then it must be true. What a terrific argument.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone that can state the case?
>>>
>> If you're really interested you can do a search on google
>> groups, this argument has been beaten to death many times.
>> It basically comes down to that fact that plain text is far
>> more accessible to a large variety of email and usenet
>> clients. You can't even ensure a webpage will look the same
>> in different browsers, how on earth can you be sure it'll
>> look fine in different HTML aware email/news clients?
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> OK following this logic. If that is true and that
> substantiates the case then all webpages should be plain
> text.
Why do you keep dragging web pages into a mail/news discussion?
It's very dishonest of you to drag in irrelevant data and claim
it negates an unrelated argument.
You haven't provided any evidence that RTF/HTML improve the
content of email or news posts, and several have indicated why
RTF/HTML is undesirable in email. Yet your strongest response
keeps going back to WEB PAGES.
If you can't seperate mail/news from web browsing, then your
reasoning is far too flawed to continue this discussion. If
this is the case, stop annoying the grown-ups and go back to
your PlayStation.
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>>
>> I'm sure you'll find it easy to explain why you feel unable
>> to communicate in plain text and what rich text provides
>> that you can't communicate already with plain text. Why is
>> it so important that everyone view your message with a
>> certain font, certain background colour and font size?
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> It communicates more and more easily.
Evidence please? Supporting facts? Opinions are like anuses,
everyone has one and thinks theirs smells best. Facts stand by
themselves, irrefutable.
> Are you seriously
> arguing against rich text? Never used a word processor?
> Never read a magazine or a newspaper?
Again, you're wandering off topic - the argument is SPECIFICALLY
about RTF in email and news postings - media which need
bandwidth and storage space to function effeciently, media which
can affect the performance and security of your computer.
And ther are many times where magazines are rendered unreadable
because of their formatting - WIRED is basically illegible, for
example.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
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