Re: Plain Text vs Html

It isn't just Outlook. It's all the email programs now. Most default to HTML
and RichText.

However most email programs can read RichText and HTML without problems.
When these guidelines were originally written, that was not the case.

In fact, I didn't realize that many mailing list still state the text only
rule. It's sort of like the old rule that you should limit email signatures
to four lines because it takes too much time for people with modem
connections to download all those lines. Or, that all the really cool
Internet email addresses are all .net domains.

So, is text only still important on this list: If so, the list server should
be setup to strip all formatting and make everything text only. If not, why
not change the rules?

And now that I think about it... Isn't ASCII no longer the "default" now
that the world is moving to UTF-8? (Yes, I know UTF-8 is setup, so ASCII is
a subset of it).

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Bob Archer <bob.archer_at_amsi.com> wrote:

> Is it my imagination or are there alot of people sending HTML email to
> the list? According to the tigris guidelines:
>
> "Please use ASCII or ISO-8859 text if possible. Don't post HTML mails,
> RichText mails, or other formats that might be opaque to text-only
> mailreaders. Regarding language: we don't have an English-only policy, but
> you will probably get the best results by posting in English — it is the
> language shared by the greatest number of list participants."
>

-- 
David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com
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