Les Mikesell wrote:
> And attachments/colors/fonts don't work well on lists due to the wide
> variety of readers and archiving tools.
Text colors, fonts, and in particular text sizes don't work well in
any email setting, IMHO. I personally have no problem if you send me
HTML mail, for the purpose of embedding links or for adding text
styles like bold or italics, for example, so long as you do not impose
your text color, font or text size preferences on me. I have my email
client configured to use a font, text color, and text size that are
comfortable for my eyes and my screen resolution. It is completely
inappropriate for people to send mail where the entire body of text is
configured to display text at "smaller than normal" size. But this is
exactly what some email client out there appears to do by default
(enclosing everything in a "font size=2" tag) because I've seen that
very often. I don't know which client it is, but I'm gonna guess
Outlook.
But as you say, archiving is also a problem. Either the archive strips
out the HTML and leaves a plain-text version, in which case you lose
any information you added with links or styling, or the archive stores
the HTML in a pretty unreadable fashion, like:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-08/0155.shtml
So for mailing lists, avoiding HTML seems to remain the best advice.
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Received on 2009-11-06 01:18:33 CET