Aravind Naidu wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >
> > on top off this if we had a different mail protocol for formatting
> > of email (to make it pretty) we had no troubles at all........
> >
>
> You mean an formatter, not a protocol...
> What is wrong with HTML for prettying up your mail ?
Because people end up sending a pretty message that lacks any
substance and abuses everyones eyeballs.
> It is the universal standard
TEXT is the universal standard - anything worth saying can be said in
text, plain and simple.
> and any half decent browser should be able to read it and is
> available on all platfoms
It is NOT available in all decent mailers, nor should it have to be.
Mail was around before html. A mailer should be send in text as
default and anything else should only be between consenting adults.
... It is better than using RTF, or (gulp) .doc
>
> Of course, for mailing lists etc., it is not polite to send HTML. You send
> HTML only if you know your target's email client.
Perhaps we can automatically ditch any email in HTMl - that would be a
good start to control list traffic.
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