On 12/24/09, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure I understand the logic of this. Why go to all this trouble to > avoid html? With today's speed and memory, it doesn't present any problem. > Or am I missing something? Is it a PC thing or Linux thing?
Why not shoot Canon or Nikon? Why use a Mac? It's a matter of preference. I prefer my information intake raw and will tune out the dancing, shiny, noisy crap. Besides the security risks that have already been mentioned, some of us are not impressed by "advertising". In other words, for a small minority, if you want to market something to us you'd better do it as simply and unobtrusively as possible. Otherwise, we'll just turn you off and go do something else. Companies like B&H and Campmor have figured this out. B&H sends along an HTML attachment that I can choose to never see. Campor's HTML messages degrade very nicely into a human readable plain text format. It doesn't take much more effort on their part, and they are able to market to those of us who don't want to see, or who can't see, the HTML message. Mark mentioned that most businesses will give you the option of choosing HTML vs. plain text. I think this isn't as widespread as it used to be. Unfortunately. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
