JB2 wrote:
On 26 September 09, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Michael S. Dunsavage
wrote: You go onto microsoft lists, and probably apple lists -- and HTML is far more common. It's only in the 'ugly duckling' linux, the lists are generally pushed as text-only, and even down to a 'one-format-fits all' approach. �A decided difference, wouldn't you say?
-linda
Except that frequently people on this list use pine or mutt. They don't parse html very well.
Can't they handle the text portion of a multipart mime encoded email? If not, maybe it is time they learned.
HTML e-mail is for 'tards and others who are easily amused by bright, shiny things...sorta like the old way of catching a monkey - put a bright shiny thing in a hole that the hand can fit into... monkey puts hand in hole to grab bright, shiny thing... monkey not smart enough to let go of bright shiny thing because 'fist' too big to remove from hole, so can't pull hand back out.
It's a waste of space and time.
Not necessarily. My software needs to send various emails to the customers of my customers, and some of them need to be formatted into tables or columns. These are ultra end-users I have no connection with, customers of my customers. I can't tell them "you should be using a fixed-width font in your email client". Most of them don't even know what "client" means in this context, nor should they have to. My solution is I take a plain text report that formats correctly in a fixed width font, and add about 37 BYTES of html tags to the entire file, to tell their email client to use a fixed with font via the html pre tag. <html><body><pre> </pre></body></html> This is in no way offensive even if reading that email on pine or mutt, because the html is in the form of just adding a couple words to the beginning and end of the body and nothing in the middle. This data is not better served as a link to some hosted file. It best served exactly as it is. html and mime formatting are perfectly good tools. They are no more evil than a hammer or a gun or a pen. Abusing them is the only thing that's wrong. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org