This was over a LONG time ago, I would suggest you drop it.
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote:
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|From: M. Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Date: Sunday, June 14, 1998 8:54 AM
|Subject: Re: HTML-formatted mail
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|>What keeps people interested in and using the Internet is e-mail. E-mail
|>mimics letter writing. It is plain text. There is no need for inline
|>images, different sized fonts and font attributes like bold, etc. Sure, in
|>a letter you can press harder on the pen/pencil, you can even switch to
|>colored pens/pencils, the point is that people don't do this in normal
|>letter writing. On the rare occasion when we need to, we do have the all
|>caps, etc.
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|I don't know where you've been, but here in the computer world we write our
|letters in a word processor.
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|A word processor won't sell worth a flip unless it supports bold, italics,
|underlining, etc.
|
|True, most people don't use computers; but I submit that the people who
|aren't using computers don't figure into the capabilities of email.
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|>e-mail when they feel the need to. They do it by typing the <bold> tags
|></bold> directly into the e-mail and letting the <italic>person
|><</italic>figure it out.
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|And you don't think it's less distracting if the program interprets those,
|showing the text in bold or italic instead of leaving the tags in there?
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|That's what we're talking about, here; those tags you're mentioning are HTML
|tags.
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