Colored Backgrounds

[John Thompson]

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 22:47:18, David Gaskill wrote:

>I would never send and HTML e-mail to anybody who had not previously e-
>mail may in this format because, as you say, I cannot know that they are able 
>to read it. However if they have, knowingly or unknowingly, sent me and 
>HTML e-mail it is reasonable to assume that their client can read the format 
>so I reply using it. 

And if you reply in plain ascii text, you can be fully certain, not merely
reasonably sure, that their email client can handle it.
 

John (john.thompson@attglobal.net)