Concerning Re: Plain Text vs Html
Ryan Schmidt wrote on 6 Nov 2009, 1:17, at least in part:
> 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.
Glad you finally brought up the decisive point against HTML mail,
Les and Ryan.
It may have been technical reason in the first place old typewriters
came with a very limited variety of additionally not too different
fonts. Yet this conformity in type provided for easy and fast
reading through a great number of letters every day. Added that
the color always was black, with but little red in-between, and only
if really necessary or meaningful.
It's quite a nuisance that today not just privates, but also
corporations use all sorts of fancy fonts for their correspondence.
Imposing font size/color, background color on people when they
have to read it on a display, which under any circumstance is
harder for the eyes, raises this nuisance.
This even more important on a list like this. Supposedly almost all
readers are professionals, and supposedly almost all read/post on
the side, making it even more necessary to be able to do so in the
easiest, quickest, most comfortable manner. Which, of course,
means by those settings one is most comfortable with.
As for links Ryan mentions, a decent mail client like Pegasus Mail
has no troubles with them in plain text mode: they are displayed,
and they work just as they should. With the extra benefit that -
unlike HTML - one can see where they go to. It also has no
problem wrapping exceeding line length in both reading and quoting.
Leave the fancy stuff to your dearies - and the spammers.
JH
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