Re: HTML formatted email -- MIDRANGE-L

What happens if we set our e-mail program to send plain and HTML? Does that create chaos too?

(this e-mail is being sent with that option checked in my preferences, so.. Is it OK for digest use?)

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owner-midrange-l@midrange.com wrote on 07/20/2001 01:00:19 PM:

> In a message dated Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:22:56 -0400, "Boling, David E."
> <bolingde@co.rowan.nc.us> writes:
>
> > I guess my first point is, that if you can't receive HTML mail you already
> > have a work around (stripper, reformat program, whatever) or otherwise your
> > not able to read a great deal (most?) of the email being sent in the world
> > already.
>
> My reader supports HTML but the list digester for this list (and seven other
> lists
> I subscribe to) does not. I subscribe to the digest version because it
> reduces
> my (high cost) connect time. This list (and the other lists) ban HTML
> because:
>
> 1) HTML increases the size of e-mails from 3 to 15 times (take a look
> sometime)
> 2) A desire on the part of the list owner to make things simpler for users.
> 3) Tools used to index, archive, search work better with plain text.
>
> > We do broadcast TV programs to radio all the time, with is then stripped of
> > the images. Much like HTML being stripped of formatting for a text user.
>
> The digest version is ALREADY GARBAGE because of HTML before I get it.
> No tool I could own would help. Subscribe to the digest version for a week
> and maybe you will FINALLY understand what everyone is saying!
>
> > Which leads to my second point...We didn't stop TV from being used because
> > some people only had a radio.
>
> Yes, - but you did not insist on broadcasting the TV signal over radio
> frequencies
> so that radio owners got 8% sound and 92% snow, static, and garbage and the
> tell them "You people are RADIO OPERATORS (programmers) for goodness sake!
> Don't get bogged down in the past. You have an obligation to stay at the
> bleeding edge. Surely you can solder up some circuits that will strip away
> all the stuff you don't want"
>
> The FAQ says no HTML, so no HTML. Surely you can configure your email
> software not to send HTML to lists that request it. You are, after all, a
> programmer, no?
>
> HTH, Lance
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