On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:57:28 -0700, Toby Bartels
<toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu> gave utterance to the following:
Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
Plain text was good enough for Dante and
Shakespeare, and it's good
enough
for mailing lists.
_Different people find different things most
readable_. Therefore, it
makes
sense to let the _reader_ decide what colors to display messages in.
So decide, reader.
Choose to view SV's messages in plain text (that's what I do),
or tell your HTML interpreter to override his colour settings.
I know of at least two email clients in which the latter is impossible - if
you choose to view html it's all or nothing.
While I find SV's decision to specify colour
unnecessarily provocative,
the fact is that he isn't forcing anything on any reader.
I find Microsoft's decision to release a buggy email client unnecessaily
provocative. As I have said before, I am not so concerned about the effect
on people's reading choice that HTML has, I'm concerned that posting HTML
or multipart to the list can make the digest version and/or any text
archive of the list unreadable. (I'm on so many mailing lists that I forget
which one is on which software, but IIRC we're on GNU Mailman, which is
affected).
--
Richard Grevers
I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere!