At 05:40 PM 8/19/2001 -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
>My point is that I think *WE'RE*WRONG* -- the view that the desire to
>have nicely formatted email, in a readable font employing normal
>typesetting conventions, is somehow anomalous and/or that the folk who
>want/expect such a thing are terminally unclued is _off_the_mark_.
I agree that this is exactly the right thing to do. Unfortunately, I think
that you probably have no idea of what my vision, screen, or monitor
resolution is like. Therefore, it is terminally stupid for you to select
fonts and colors that look good on your screem, to you, and then impose
them on me, and any mail system that allows you to do this to all of the
recipients of a mailing list is terminally broken.
What today's html mail does is not what you want. I have set fonts,
colors, and sizes that work for me. Html mail might arrive spread all over
my screen, or, more often than not, it arrives in a tiny font with
background colors that make it unreadable to me, unless I get my reading
glasses out, which I normally do not wear while using a computer.
What might be fine for communications among consenting adults is terminally
broken when it is scaled to the mailing list environment. IMHO, it only
takes one visually impaired mailing list recipient to make forwarding
formatted mail a bad idea.
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