In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ed Woodrick wrote:
>Why do yall go through so much trouble to not utilize existing Internet
>messaging standards? The overhead of an HTML message is pretty small. I
>wouldn't be surprised if it was near the overhead of a UUENCODE!
>
>It's just so disconcerting to me that some of the folks who are long
>time residents of the Internet, a mechanism that many call so radically
>state-of-the-art, that you would have such an archaic attitude. Don't
>you feel like a dinosaur in Disneyland? Going around growling and
>everyone else ignoring you?
>
>HTML is here to stay. If you want to provide a service to you list
>users, then you probably should start thinking about how to work WITH
>your subscribers than against them.
>
>Granted, not everyone has a mail reader that will read HTML, but at what
>percentage do you make HTML a standard? And for those of you who are
>stuck on UNIX using readers that only stand regular text messages, don't
>gripe and complain that the rest of us decided to move on and leave you
>in the 60's. Plain text messaging is on the way out. Corporate messaging
>systems have been rich text for many years.
>
>Lead, Follow, or get out of the way!
I happen to be one of those ``grumpy old men'' who still bitches (mildly)
when people send me mail or post to USENET news with the same bloody
stuff replicated below in HTML-ized form, but even _I_ will admit that
Ed Woodrick has made some pretty compelling arguments here. Perhaps most
compelling for me personally is that I certainly do not want to be the
last one on my block to throw away my buggy whips and move onto something
new.
I compliment Ed for having made the case so eloquently. Seriously.
Separately however, I'd like to ask him to please refrain from posting
any more redundant HTML to the list. Some folks, myself included, con-
sider it just slightly rude.
(1/2 :-)
P.S. Ed pegged me exactly right... I use UNIX and yes, I confess that I
_do_ still have those old love beads stashed way back in the back of the
closet somewhere. Peace man.
:-)
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