On Jul 5, 2008, at 2:07 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
If the HTML wasn't shit I wouldn't mind. But it always is. It's
always a fancy layout (because they're trying to reproduce what they'd
do on paper, but that doesn't work in the small space available in
most
mail clients) or an ugly layout (because the software is just too
damned
hard to use, or because the user is a fuckwit) or pointless (because
all they've done is <html><body>lots of plain text</body></html>).
Worse than pointless, this is counterproductive, since mail readers
(such as Apple Mail) will automatically mark up links in text but not
HTML. I've gotten messages of the form <html><body>some text URL
more text</body></html> where clicking on the URL does nothing
because the sender didn't mark it up with <a>.
Josh
