Cesar ...
You've touched a nerve ...

For a start, because the list requires it.

Second, because we have no idea what kind of client the members are using.

Third, plain text is all that is needed to communicate the ideas and 
concepts necessary to this list.

Fourth, plain text renders blocks of code, indentation, etc. cleanly and 
consistently.

Fifth, "rich" email or HTML email is a crock promoted by Microsoft, and 
results in unnecessarily bloated messages.

Sixth, the "features" of HTML email are often employed to the detriment of 
clear and concise writing.

And I could probably come up with more, but those are just off the top of 
my head. I don't know if you were around when W95 first came out, but 
Outlook offered, and it still does, to make Word the default email editor. 
For about 6 mos life on mailing lists was hell until people were trained to 
turn that off. Can you imagine reading an HTML formatted message in 
Pegasus, mutt or pine?

Cheers - Miles Thompson


At 02:45 AM 7/12/2002 -0300, César Aracena wrote:
>It’s me again… and not PHP related. Why is it that every piece of mail I
>send to the list comes back as a *rich text” or sometime even “plain
>text”, when my M$ Outlook is set to send HTML messages? I think it would
>make sense if *EVERYBODY* e-mail where received like mine because of
>server’s settings, but some people letters appear as they intend to be.
>Any thoughts? Thanks,
>
>Cesar Aracena <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CE / MCSE+I
>Neuquen, Argentina
>+54.299.6356688
>+54.299.4466621
>



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