On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
This is one where setting a good example is useless, because it isn't noticed. I send email in plain text, and people still insist on responding in HTML with settings like black-on-dark-gray. They don't realize that plain text is a choice made for good reasons.
There's also two other possibilities: They don't know that they're sending HTML, or they don't know how to change it. I have the second problem at my home email - I noticed that it has options as to what size and lettertype to send my email in, which I do not want at all. I just want to send and receive plain text.
You might try doing as I do here, and search for a text-only email client. Most HTML email consists actually of a double sending, once as plain text and once as HTML. Emails that have only an HTML version are usually just spam.
Andre Engels