RE: HTML formatted email

["Boling, David E." <bolingde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>If you were writing an email to a specific person, Bob Q.
>Gottalousyemailpackage, and you knew that his emailer could not deal with
>HTML well and that your message would show up looking like the bottom of a
>birdcage and you sent it anyway, who's the idiot? You or Bob?

I would do just have I have done here. If the purpose of the email was to
express ideas, suggestions, etc, I would email him in text format (as I
think most of my emails have been) telling him that there was a
Notsolousyeofemailclient available for free (in case he didn't know) and
suppling any pro and cons of using it.  I would feel this would be a win-win
for both of us, with neither being an idiot (unless he got mad or insulting
then he would be).  He would be free to do as he wished, no harm done.

>Again, it seems like the confusion here is that you are confusing "the
>industry at large" or "the world at large" with the real issue.

Now I understand IBM decision to wait so long to be ready for win95, TCP,
etc. We are not part of the world (industry), I keep forgetting.  We are
midrange people. People that suggest things are idiots.  We don't use tools
that others use.  

I wouldn't be suprised to find that most of the audience here is not so out
of sync with the rest of the world.  I would imagine that most can handle
html email. As a matter of fact, it could be missing it's audience because
of the text only rule? Who knows.

I'm real sorry that the digest can't handle html well, others can.   


David Boling (bolingde@co.rowan.nc.us)
Information Systems Director
Rowan County Information Systems Department

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