I have to agree with the opinion that HTML does NOT belong in
email, but I think this is a waste of space. I for one don't bother to
read email written in HTML. If someone sends me an email thus encoded,
they better know by now not to expect a response. Email is indeed for
transfer of information. Read: INFORMATION. Not web pages.
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Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MicroComputer Specialist University of Tulsa
Engineering and Natural Sciences
"I don't remember yesterday. And today, it rained."
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Zoki wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Kenyon Ralph wrote:
>
> ->> As far as I'mn concerned, adding bloody HTML tags makes the mail
> ->> *harder* to read and certainly doesn't increase its
> ->> comprehensibililty.
> ->
> ->That's because you're not supposed to read the raw HTML source, you're
> ->supposed to read the formatted output like a web browser makes.
>
>
> *** Well, even if not using html tagged e-mail we do understand that,
> except that it still doesn't change anything to the fact that there is
> really no point in using html e-mail. It doesn't add anything more to the
> message that you can't do with plain ASCII. It's maybe nice to people
> listening too much to Billy's marketing speaches where "commando line" and
> "text based" programs are devilish (untill you have to repair a Windows
> f**k up) but it is certanly not to people using mail to get information
> across. The point is not to impress people with a superb lay-out but with
> the contence of the message. In case it is necessary to use html tags in a
> message (sending in your CV or a commercial message to a new client) one
> should be free to use that possibility, but let's not try to push it down
> everybodies throat as "the hotest thing to do in order to get the mesasge
> accross".
>
> Zoki.
>
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