[pmmail-list] hyper-text?

[Martin Moran]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:58:28 +0100, Paul Hodges wrote:

>Only if the HTML is well-honed, and there are no images attached. 
>Your assertion reminds me of the early selling-point for Windows that
>program files would actually get smaller because the system did so
>much more for them.

Paul,

I'm not sure that I'm convinced.   And if you review my last e-mail, I
started out by saying that the images are another story.  I also do not
agree that HTML e-mail is rude.  I know too many people who just don't
know better or want the formatting ability.  Does that make them rude? 
No.  Are they being reasonable in their assumption that my e-mail
program can read HTML?  Absolutely.  And it can - just not well.

In my opinion the difference between HTML e-mail and plain text is
really about the difference between a verbose and a terse
correspondent.  How many HTML messages do you get a day?  Counting the
extra characters, and the extra download time, even at 56k, does it
REALLY make all that much difference.  I'm not arguing that it doesn't
make a difference - I'm just saying it doesn't make much of one,
considering.

I'm not going to stand on a soapbox about this, so I'm probably going
to drop the thread.  There will be people that I will never be able to
convince on this (truly trivial) point, and I have better bloody things
to do with my time.  However, the fact remains that *IF* one of my
correspondents *chooses* to use HTML, either consciously or through
ignorance, I should *bloody well* expect my e-mail program of choice to
format the freaking thing properly, considering we are now in 2002. 
It's not like it's 1995.
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Martin Moran                 ommoran@telusplanet.net
Edmonton, Alberta            e-mail for my PGP key

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