At Mon, 7 Mar 2005 09:47:10 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There are just as many reasons for not having HTML emails as there are to >having it, but end the end it's a religious war.
It's a war about standards. (<http://www.imc.org/rfcs.html>) Text based email is a perfectly good standard that works well on all kinds of devices and software platforms. Corrupting it with html is an abomination to the open interoperable exchange which characterises the success of the internet. If you use "html email" you are helping to degrade internet standards. Senders of "html email" fall into various camps: 1) the clueless (they do not know where to switch it off in their preferences, they bought software that sends "html email" by default). 2) webmail email users (usually also clueless, but as every email looks like html to them, why would they ever get a clue? Or their service provider may neglect to provide the option to switch it off. So everyone thinks they're clueless anyway) 3) Commercial sites that want to send you lots of images by email or think you care what font they have chosen to suit their "corporate image." They can do all this on their website. Send a link: I might look at it. Send me html, I'll delete it unread. Professionals should know better. All this cruft wastes a lot of bandwidth and server resources, forcing people to throw new hardware at the problem! It's a waste. It's a con. Whatever happened to "doing the right thing"? D. -- Dougie Carnall +44 (0) 7900 212 881 http://navarino.org.uk:8080/blog
