Myself wrote: >> And besides, more often than not, html mail contains ugly >> fonts/colors and is spam. > > > Oh well then it must be true. What a terrific argument. > > Is there anyone that can state the case? > If you're really interested you can do a search on google groups, this argument has been beaten to death many times. It basically comes down to that fact that plain text is far more accessible to a large variety of email and usenet clients. You can't even ensure a webpage will look the same in different browsers, how on earth can you be sure it'll look fine in different HTML aware email/news clients?
I'm sure you'll find it easy to explain why you feel unable to communicate in plain text and what rich text provides that you can't communicate already with plain text. Why is it so important that everyone view your message with a certain font, certain background colour and font size? It's normally easiest just to send plain text and configure your client to display messages how you like, with whatever fonts and colour schemes you desire. Then you can simply forget what everyone else has and it makes life a lot easier. ian.
