On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:27:42AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > HTML email is sent exclusively by three groups of people: > > 1. Ignorant newbies > 2. Ineducable morons > 3. Spammers > > There are no exceptions.
This statement is complete and utter crap. I receive HTML mail regularly from colleagues, family, and friends, most of whom are none of the above. I would estimate that about 25% of the e-mail I receive at work is now HTML mail. HTML provides all of the features that people IN THIS THREAD have been complaining are lacking in plain text e-mail, and it does so very effectively, when used judiciously. I myself am none of the three, and in particular I've managed e-mail for myself and for others for the past 18 years. I've used Mutt since about 1999 and I've been on the mutt mailing lists continuously since then. While I still tend to favor plain text e-mail for most things, especially mailing list posts, frankly I would personally much rather see actual italicised or bolded text than things like "*this* *should* *be* *bold*" in an e-mail message, and properly formatted tables when that is called for; and HTML gives you all of that very effectively. There are three problems with HTML *in practice* which are legitimate but completely solvable (and partially solved already by reasonable mail clients that support HTML), and not inherent to the format. Damning the format for implementation problems, or because you don't like the content of many of the messages you receive in that format, is the exact opposite of enlightened. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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