On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:47:25PM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> the colors are fixable - what is painful for html email regarding mutt is
> that since the html attachments don't show up except as a single line, I
> tend to delete the email before reading it. (There are inevitably some
> people who have something to say in those emails but have chosen to use
> some !@#$-ware such as hotmail because it's "free").
It depends on how you have mutt configured. I have my mailcap file and
auto_view command set up to display HTML attachments as plain text in
mutt's pager and have display_filter set to remove the "[-- ... --]"
lines that mutt adds. Except for a slight delay as the longer
attachments are rendered, I can't even tell the difference between HTML
and plain text e-mail anymore.
I receive a lot of internal memos from administrative assistants
(formerly known as secretaries) formatted as HTML. I used to explain to
them about different MUAs and would ask them to please send their memos
as plain text. I just don't worry about it anymore, for the following
reasons.
1. As I said above, now that I have mutt, I don't notice it anymore.
2. I got tired of explaining text-only MUAs to them only to receive
comments like, "I guess Unix isn't very good if it can't even
display different colors and fonts like my PC can. When are you
guys going to start using Windows?"
3. In all fairness [donning flame suit now], HTML e-mail looks better
to most users than does plain text. You can change the font, you
can put individual words or titles in bold or italics. The
presentation is just nicer. A lot of people take pride in how their
work looks, and to people working in a Windows environment where
it's easy to make a memo look more professional (not just fancier)
by using different fonts and character styles, why wouldn't they
want to take advantage of these features? Most of their recipients
probably appreciate it. Even manual typewriters offered more
flexibility than text/plain does.
4. HTML beats all heck out of the Word documents they used to send. I
do keep pounding on that and seem to be making progress.
Gary
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