On Friday 12 August 2005 10:44 am, Renegade Penguin wrote:
  

This caters to the lowest common denominator, and allows access to everyone.
    

The lowest common technical demoninator, perhaps.  Allowing access to everyone 
is a good thing, especially for a corporation.  If you want an exclusive 
club, starting your own is always on option.

  

Who is on METERED dial-up?  I know about metered broadband, but metered
DIALUP?  I haven't seen that since about 1996 in the US - so nearly 10
years now.  Are there still places that charge by the hour?  Honestly
asking.
    

There are people with metered phone service and they pay by the minute.  So, 
even if their ISP isn't charging them by the hour, their TelCo is.  Plus, I 
imagine there are people on this list using a curses interface to keep up 
with the List and they don't read HTML formatting as anything but noise in 
the channel.  So, as a matter of courtesy,  to the "lowest common 
demoninator" and out of a desire for clear communication, please don't use 
HTML formatted e-mail.  While we're on the subject, the common usage of HTML 
e-mail is responsible for a quite a bit of our virus issues.  Just on general 
principle, I don't use it for anything.