On Tuesday 03 May 2005 00:37, Holly Bostick wrote: > Greg Donald wrote: > > On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog > >> wants me to > > > > Laziness is no excuse. Takes all of 2 seconds to turn it off. > > Just to prove it.... in Thunderbird: > > Edit=>Account Preferences=>Composition and Addressing=>uncheck "Compose > Messages in HTML format". > > Done (just had to do it myself, since I've *finally* got Gentoo > reinstalled --who missed me ? :) -- and this is thus a new T-bird install). > > Really, it's the right thing to do. HTML mail is "OK" if you're getting > an email newsletter from a store or or Activision or whoever (it's not > really "OK", but at least the product kinda justifies it, and you can > reasonably expect that it's "safe", being from an authorized source). > > But there's no reason whatsoever to use HTML on a mailing list that > might be read via > > 1) a text mail client > > 2) a text newsgroup reader > > 3) a gui mail client or news reader that doesn't support all the HTML > features your mail composition program does > > 4) a web browser that doesn't support all the HTML features your mail > composition program does (hey, there's a lot of GMail users here, and > they could be accessing GMail via "unsupported browsers", which drops > you to "Basic HTML view" which could mean anything in terms of ultimate > mail display, over and above the service's feature limitation that is > explained for this condition) > > 5) on any computer that doesn't have all the same pretty fonts installed > (unless you embed your fonts in the mail as well, which would cause at > least me to come after you with --at the very minimum-- a big axe, and > at preference, a huge amount of somewhat heavier weaponry. I hate people > embedding fonts in their emails like my mail server has infinite space > to hold their bloody mails so they can be as big as they feel like they > want).
you forgot point 6,7,8 (more general but still true): 6) Most html mails are just spam, so a lot of people will discard html mails automatically as spam. 7) html in mails is a screaming security problem. Nobody, who does not want to get tricked by a spammer, reads a mail without checking it first for 'bugs', that costs a lot of time (extra 10 secs per mail minimum). 8) some people hear 'html mails' and think automatically of the worst outlook and aol users ... ;o) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
