HTML-ised email

[John Angelico]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 02:03:10 -0700, Dave in Phoenix AZ wrote:

Banging on about this... John replied:

>On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:15:10 -0500 (EST), Wilson Rook wrote:
>>There are, however, 
>>many others who have a drive for quality in every thing they do.   They ask, how
>>can my e-mail message be made better.  In many cases html is a good choice.
>

Correction: HTML is A choice! Whether it is a GOOD choice depends on
the purpose for making it better, what else is available to achieve
the same goal, restrictions of the medium etc 

>Since I'm the one who started all this..... THAT, I agree with!  As tests
>showed the increased size isn't that great.  Today disk space is cheap.  Also
>the Internet backbone per a recent WSJ article is expanding in capacity much
>faster than even the rapid growth of traffic !

But this wasn't always so. We cannot (as others have said) assume
that capacity will always increase to meet the silly demands we place
upon a system, and in ANY given finite timeframe, capacity/bandwidth
is logically NOT infinite.


>Also different color texts can be helpful in separating parts of messages, or
>having original text your referring to in a different color than the response
>text so its easier to tell them apart etc.
>
*As long as it's done carefully. Remember in word processing, we
don't use bold, caps, italics etc just because we can, but only where
it will genuinely enhance communication. Once we may have, but surely
we have grown up a bit since then (yeah - now we do PowerPoint
presentations! :( )???

>Plus I don't like to be like everyone else.  If I can be creative and look a
>bit different I like the ability to do that!

OK - AS LONG AS you don't overdo it. Achieve your goal elegantly
rather than with brute force... 

Since I don't have an infinite and free supply of car or fuel, I
don't drive my car 200 yards to my local shops just to collect a loaf
of bread (my son rides his bike!) 

>Dave in Phoenix, who asked the html question about colored backgrounds that
>started this!
>
[Julius Caesar] Oh, so YOU started this, Brutus! 


Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
Melbourne PC User Group Inc.
Email: talldad@melbpc.org.au or talldad@kepl.com.au
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