Bill Potts wrote: > Thank you so much for sharing that with us, Michael. > > Seriously, though, I opposed the use of HTML emails on this list for > a long time -- simply because several participants had no HTML > capability in their email software. However, over time, as people > have upgraded or replaced their email software, that has changed. > > Because HTML formatting occupies more space than plain text, I still > favor plain-text formatting for messages that only contain plain > text. However, it makes sense to make an occasional exception for > messages containing special characters, exponents, graphics, etc. > > The really objectionable thing is the copying of entire web pages > into messages to be sent to this list, rather than simply providing > links to the pages' locations on the web. Fortunately, that doesn't > seem to be happening anymore. (I'm trying to remember who it was who > was doing a lot of that until he was asked to stop.) > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > >
this is a good resource for: http://learn.to/quote/ switch to english HTML-formatted mails make almost impossible to quote or to comment, for people using Outlook Express, I can strongly recommend: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
