On Wednesday 12 June 2002 07:12 pm, Charlie wrote: > June 12, 2002 04:26 pm, shane wrote: > > if good to you means sending html, unless netscape still does, your out > > of luck. > > > > do you want to be hated on email lists? all the html senders are, linux > > list and non alike. > > > > i still don't understand why good to you means too big, bandwidth > > hogging, silly features and increased spam joined with poor security, but > > hey to each their own..... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > While 99.999999% of the e-mail that I send is plain text; I still do > occasionally send an HTML message. Most of the time it's for such stupid > things as birthday cards, or other "special event greeting" that I've > constructed for a friend; but I always send them a plain text warning first > to expect html in the next message, and I won't send it if they ask me not > to. > > I do it mostly 'cause I hate generic "greetings" from card sites that exist > only to mine e-mail addresses and spam the unholy hell out of everyone that > ever got such a "card." I'd rather send an html message once a year to > someone than send them a greeting from sites like that. If someone requests > 'don't send me any html' I'll usually park the "card" on web space that I > have rights to and send them a link. Only happened once. > > BTW; you can send all of the HTML from Mozilla (Mail) Messenger that you > like. You can even pre-set the format for anyone in the address book that > prefers anything other than plain text. > > Duckin' outta the line of fire now.
Charlie: You're cool. There's a huge difference between sending someone a personalized HTML birthday greeting, and posting in HTML to a widely-read mailing list. Of course, if you had cared enough to send the very best, you would have sent a Hallmark. -- cmg
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