On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:14:45 GMT, Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:32:09 -0500, l v <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted : > >>I think e-mail should be text only. I think that is a useful base standard, which allows easy creation of ad-hoc tools to search and extract data from your archives, etc. > >I disagree. Your problem is spam, not HTML. Spam is associated with >HTML and people have in Pavlovian fashion come to hate HTML. > >But HTML is not the problem! Right, it's what the HTML-interpreting engines might do that is the problem. > >That is like hating all choirs because televangelists use them. > >HTML allows properly aligned table, diagrams, images, use of >colour/fonts to encode speakers. emphasis, hyperlinks. All good stuff, but I don't like worrying about side effects when I read email. > >I try to explain Java each day both on my website on the plaintext >only newsgroups. It is so much easier to get my point across in HTML. How about pdf? > >Program listings are much more readable on my website. IMO FOSS pdf could provide all the layout benefits while avoiding (allowing for bugs) all the downsides of X/HTML in emails. Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
