On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 16:42 -0600, Jeremy George wrote: > I believe gmail is actually checking the email against others in the thread > and hiding the portions that are being repeated (like the plug footer which > is repeated at the bottom of each reply in the thread.) > > As for mono spaced fonts, I find them more difficult to read. I really don't > see why they should be the norm, except for possibly some odd reverence to > computer tradition.
Seems as though the reason we still prefer mono-spaced fonts is that on our modern, crappy, low-resolution displays (anything under 300 dpi in other words), monospaced just is easier to read and easier on the eyes. To this day nothing can beat the old monochrome MDA display for crisp, readable characters. I still use that original IBM font (in pcf format) for my terminals since it is so dang comfortable on the eyes. There once was a truetype version of this font (one point size only)---does anyone know where I might find it? I'm okay with proportional fonts so long as black remains the recommended e-mail color. I receive at least 5 e-mails a day from various co-workers on BYU campus in 6-point blue or green arial font with a really unprofessional-looking signature that is FirstnameLastname using black and blue fonts. I'm also opposed to comic sans and any other "fun" font that HTML e-mail allows. In fact, I don't even like Arial, but I can tolerate it. Times New Roman would be more readable. Anyway, Thunderbird has a nifty feature to convert the mail display, no matter if it was html or not, to plain text. Does a wonderful job of cleaning up the html messages. Also there's no such thing as a valid html-only message. All html messages should contain a plain-text version as well as the html. Anything that doesn't is spam. I just wish the clients would do a better job of letting you choose which one you see, as thunderbird lets you. I'm in favor of either the one-liner plug footer or the C comment block. Either way. Michael -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net * Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug */
