Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > In general, html email is mostly a "solution" in search of a problem, > and it ends up causing trouble and being overall worse than the > simple, efficient, easy, working, universally adopted technology that > preceded it. Besides all the problems already listed in this > discussion, html email facilitates malware, web bugs, phishing, spam, > and incompatibility (besides the people who use HTML-incapable email > clients, there are email clients that don't render HTML email well (it > is more common then you think), not to mention that the HTML email > itself is often broken). > > And of the HTML emails, a tiny minority actually make something useful > of HTML, while the rest is either deliberately harmful or has a lot of > "fancy" formating that looks it was created by a teenager. Besides > looking horrible, they are often harder to read. > > As for the guy who suggested a form of "sanitized HTML for email", > maybe you would like > "enriched text" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text > >
Someone who put it better than I could. I use HTML elsewhere but out of respect for the list and those who use it, I use text only, try not to send anything huge and put links in a way that should work for everybody. Maybe I am just a pushover? It's not like I own the list or anything either. :/ Dale :-) :-)
