On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:24, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:35:32PM +0000, Dirk Koopman said: > > The default setting for "most" mail input on "most" MUAs is HTML. This > > is therefore what "most people" use - whether *we* like it or not. > > Is this because they actually want it or they don't know any better? > > That's not a troll - I'm painfully aware that I am not an 'average > user' and am genuinely interested. >
My limited experience with this is that, if you ask, they prefer it. "Like", I think, may be too strong a word. But it is also true that, unless you ask, they simply stick with defaults. This seems to still cover "most" people. What I would say, being an evo/sylpheed user, if you do create HTML mail, please stick *everything* in that is relevant (all the necessary images, css and stuff). It gets very annoying getting HTML email with half of it missing - for those of us that don't allow off-site references from HTML email. I believe this is an issue for some of the more enlightened Windows/Outlook shops as well. Dirk -- Please Note: Some Quantum Physics Theories Suggest That When the Consumer Is Not Directly Observing This Product, It May Cease to Exist or Will Exist Only in a Vague and Undetermined State.
