on 15/11/03 10:27 AM, George at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Obviously, html formatting I email create possibilities of nicer >> presentation. >> However, I have a friend who says that I shouldn't use html because some >> people's computer's can't receive that and they just get confusing symbols. >> What's your advice � use it or not? > > I vote for not using it. Most of the time it serves no useful purpose over > plain text. Often makes quoting parts of a message a pain. Quotes in > replies are not as obvious as in plain test using standard >. Wastes > bandwidth and disk space. Don�t need �nicer presentations� email.
Most of the time I just use plain text. Most text doesn't need any formatting, but there are times I do. Where I work we are dealing with films. An email looks much better when the title of films are displayed in italic. Some times I want some items in bold, so they stand out in the message. I find lately that a lot of people don't read email messages thouroughly and miss certain items that are important. I know I know I am also guilty of doing this. I have discovered in Entourage you can swap to html, and use the number and bullet list feature. If you then convert to plain text the numbers stay and bullets are converted to asterisks. This can provide some simple formatting without needing to send html. The indent converts to quoting with ">" which is not desired. > Don�t need �nicer presentations� email. I am wondering about your use of curly quotes. Do you actually use them or are you just doing a take on formatting? I wouldn't use them in plain text email messages as they are not part of 7-bit ASCII. -- Matthew Smith -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
