Re: OT: HTML vs Rich text

2004-08-04 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Interesting thread. I just sent totally formatted RTF mail from Outlook on Win2K to my PM account, and it arrived as text/plain. Even the source shows no trace of RTF. Hm... -- - Hiro [PROTECTED] <[PROTECTED]> <[PROTECTED]>

Re: OT: HTML vs Rich text

2004-08-04 Thread C. A. Niemiec
>This is slightly off topic, but back in the days when I used to use >Eudora I recall that in between the options for sending email either as >Plain Text or as HTML, there was a middle option: Rich Text. As I >remember it, this allowed basic text formatting (Bold, italic, increase >size etc) but n

Re: OT: HTML vs Rich text

2004-08-04 Thread Chris Walker
Hi all, This is something that I have always thought would be a halfway house between those wanting some form of formatting - bold, underline etc and those who want the full HTML gamut of pictures and fancy fonts. I've never quite understood why mail clients in general do not use a limited RTF i

Re: OT: HTML vs Rich text

2004-08-04 Thread Wayne Brissette
>reject HTML mail on grounds of it being potentially harmful spam. My >question, therefore, (you knew I'd get around to it eventually, right?) >is this: Does Rich Text email suffer from the same fate. If I were to >send out promotional email with bold headings, would there be the same >chance of i

OT: HTML vs Rich text

2004-08-04 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi gang; This is slightly off topic, but back in the days when I used to use Eudora I recall that in between the options for sending email either as Plain Text or as HTML, there was a middle option: Rich Text. As I remember it, this allowed basic text formatting (Bold, italic, increase size etc)