"Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "l v" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Xah Lee wrote: >>>> (circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995), >>> >>> I think e-mail should be text only. I have both my email and news >>> readers >>> set to display in plain text only. It prevents the marketeers and >>> spammers from obtaining feedback that my email address is valid. A >>> surprising amount of information can be obtained from your computer by >>> allowing HTML and all of it's baggage when executing on your computer. >>> Phishing comes to my mind first and it works because people click the >>> link >>> without looking to see where the link really takes them. >> >> A formatting-only subset of HTML would be useful for both e-mail and >> Usenet >> posts. > > Used to be people who wanted to send formatted text via email would > use rich text. It never really caught on. But given that most of the > people sending around formatted text are using point-n-click GUIs to > create the stuff, the main advantage of HTML - that it's easy to write > by hand - isn't needed.
But the other advantage, that it's an existing and popular standard, remains. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
