> Why does it have to be either or. I vote for peaceful coexistence. It's difficult for coexistence to be peaceful, when one side does not make life annoying for the other (text messages are equally readable to everyone), but the other side is not willing to reciprocate (html messages are not equally well readable to everyone). In my software FAQ I included very small samples that indicate how pathological some HTML email is, please check it out: http://www.tranglos.com/free/freeware_faq.html
(By the way, by far the worst offender is incredimail. Their HTML is abhorrent, not only in its malformedness but in sheer size, and to add insult to injury they append several images to each message. As someone who archives nearly all email and occasionally needs to search through these archives, I find this practice completely lacking of forethought, and find it difficult to be peaceful about it. TB's ability to delete attachments and HTML sections from received messages is a godsend.) > I predict that in a couple of years, > we all be sending multimedia e-mails to everyone (voice, pictures, > video, etc). I don't think so. When I get up in the morning and answer email, the last thing I want anyone to see (my friends, people who use my software, people who give me work) is a video image of *me*. If I were at work in an office, there might be other aspects, such as confidentiality, to shun video. Anything else can be emailed as attachment. > I believe it's arrogant for people to call "html" evil when there > are more immoral acts/behaviors going around. I believe no arrogance is implied in the hackish usage. www.jargon.org is not accessible for some reason, so let me copy and paste instead from the Jargon File (CAPS are mine): evil adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is SUFFICIENTLY MALDESIGNED AS TO BE NOT WORTH THE BOTHER OF DEALING WITH. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous/losing/brain-damaged series, evil does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather A SET OF GOALS OR DESIGN CRITERIA FATALLY INCOMPATIBLE with the speaker's. This usage is more an ESTHETIC AND ENGINEERING JUDGMENT than a moral one in the mainstream sense. (Jargon File version 3.2.0, 21 Mar 1995, created by Guy L. Steele, Jr and Eric S. Raymond) > I guess we all have to move on sometimes. Allow me to respectfully disagree. I believe that before we move on, "we all" should make independent, informed decisions about whether the proposed direction is beneficial. Best regards, .marek jedlinski ===================================================== IMPORTANT: NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: marekjed (at) pobox.com NEW URL FOR SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS: http://keynote.prv.pl (address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is no longer valid!) ===================================================== -- No ads, no nags freeware: http://keynote.prv.pl (KeyNote, PhoneDeck, KookieJar, Oubliette) "Later in this talk, I intend to define the universe and give three examples." (Larry Wall) ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
