don't like HTML email? here's your fix.

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:26:12 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

>For the same (accurate) reasons you give that HTML formatted email
>can not be guaranteed to look the same on the receiving end as they
>do to the sender, plain text email can not be guaranteed to look the
>same to the sender and receiver either -- even if you use a
>non-proportional font.
>
>The reason is just like HTML -- you have no control over and no idea
>how the receiver's client works. Does it display the font the sender
>specifies or does it display in the font the receiver specifies? I'm
>sure you realize that many email clients display in whatever font the
>receiver specifies.

I disagree.  If you and the receiver are both using non-proportional
fonts, then the layout will be identical as long as the receiver
doesn't wrap the lines.

You only run into problems if one or the other (or both) are using
proportional fonts.

Yes, many clients (including PMMail) allow the user to specify the
font.  BUT, if you say in the first line of your message that the user
needs to use a non-proportional font in order to view the message
properly, then you at least have a better chance of the message looking
the same to the receiver as the writer intended it to look.


JBB
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