On 10/08/09 05:28, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
[...]
> Me, I'm stuck with OutHouse for now, so I have to
[...]
I like the nickname. And when you use Out* Express, it's because you've
been hit by the /turista/?
[...]
> What galls me, though, is that "cutesy" email, almost always html, with
> garish colorschemes, weird-ass indentation, blinding-white backgrounds,
> etc., the poster had to actually go out of his way to select. And
> *THAT* I find utterly unforgiveable.
Yeah, me too. Anything in yellow on pink, or maybe pink on green, it's
"Next" immediately without reading. Unless I'm feeling extremely mellow
that particular day.
OTOH, I don't see what you mean by "blinding-white background", my
mailer (SeaMonkey) uses white (#FFFFFF I suppose) as default background,
also for plaintext (and black, #000000, as default foreground). But at
least, with plaintext it's the receiver, not the sender, who chooses the
BG-FG colours.
> I had one client who did exactly
> that and even had a background image of a spiral-bound notebook
> left-border, as if that were supposed to be "cute". I was forced to
> actually read his emails (once, only, as I generally refused to reread
> any from him), but Hell if I didn't *immediately* strip all the crappy
> html out of it before replying, even if he decided to use colors,
> emphasis, etc., peppered throughout his text. (<alt><o><t><y></alt> in
> OutHouse, in case anyone's interested.) And no amount of cutesy html
> can hide atrocious grammar/spelling, if you know what I mean.<snicker>
That's for sure. And even using a spell checker won't always detect
atrocious its <=> it's, their <=> there, where <=> wear, etc. English is
a difficult language with an awful lot of homonyms (though fewer than
Chinese, I've been told).
How did that joke run again? One I once saw in a random sig of mine,
about having nothing left to do but commit, er, sioux-e-sight or
something like that. ("Ghoti" is well-known but not in the dictionary,
any spell checker will reject it.)
>
> Anyway, I vented enough for now...
Best regards,
Tony.
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