On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:14:45 GMT, Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:32:09 -0500, l v <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted : > >>I think e-mail should be text only. > >I disagree. Your problem is spam, not HTML. Spam is associated with >HTML and people have in Pavlovian fashion come to hate HTML. > >But HTML is not the problem! > >That is like hating all choirs because televangelists use them. > >HTML allows properly aligned table, diagrams, images, use of >colour/fonts to encode speakers. emphasis, hyperlinks. None of which I want in email. If you're writing a book, write a book, and either provide a link or attachment. > >I try to explain Java each day both on my website on the plaintext >only newsgroups. It is so much easier to get my point across in HTML. > >Program listings are much more readable on my website. My copy of javac seems to prefer plain text, and so do I ;-) -- Al Balmer Balmer Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
