HTML Email was Colored Backgrounds

[Trevor Smith]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:32:48, David Gaskill wrote:

>If I reply to your HTML e-mail in ASCII you *might* think that I was either too incompetent or 
>too behind the times to be able to respond in the same format. You  *might*  think that I was, by 
>implication, criticising your choice of format. 

This whole argument of "use HTML if someone sends you HTML" seems
silly to me. How would someone receiving a plain ASCII file ever know
that it was not HTML? Is *all* HTML email *required* to use a
coloured background? Is it *required* to use <bold> and <font
color="green"> tags? *Must* it have tables in it?

Of course not.

There is no reason for a person (who is using an HTML email client)
receiving a plain text email to ever realize it's any different from
HTML email. Plain text should always be the default.


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