This is to thank Jim for his USMA 19913 which expressed my feelings about html more adequately than I could have done.
>2. You sent your message in html format. So, in addition to receiving >the text version, I received the html version also (thus roughly >tripling the size of your message). The last line of the html portion in >that message of yours (but not in the plain text portion) is > " ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1EF5F.3B852E40--" >This is a link to open that pop-up ad (including the cookie it tries to >plant, but which I rejected). I'll bet that you didn't even know you >sent that. (By the way, I see the same thing when I read this message >via Kmail and Konqueror, too, probably due to similar settings here and >of course the tag line shown above.) > >So, no, my first message was not intended to make this an issue. If you >had set your mail composer to send messages only in plain text then your >message size would have been considerably shorter and you would not have >inadvertantly sent along a link that even you did not realize was there. >This is the "trash" that several of us have refered to before when we >asked you to send plain-text messages. So, the ad and the cookie >planting attempt are due to your refusal to send in plain text only. Of >course, I could clear that "view attachments inline" on my browser and >not be assaulted by the trash you send. It still downloads onto my disk, >I just don't have to see it. Apparently you have your settings set so >that you don't see the trash you send. > >There, now you and I have made this an issue. In case I haven't >mentioned it for awhile, I see nothing beneficial that formatting >outgoing messages in html provides. The colored backgrounds, the funky >fonts, the weird effects, and so forth are all just show-off glitza >adding nothing intelligent to the contents, in my opinion. Of course, >you're entitled to your own opinion and you've expressed it here before. >But now you know about some of the trash that you have been sending >unwittingly due to your firm beliefs. Come to think of it, I've never >heard you comment on the benefit that sending in html format affords >you. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
