text vs html posts on this list...

Paul paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk
Sun Oct 3 20:37:34 UTC 2004


Hi,

> Hi, I recently received an email from someone yelling in my ear tellimg 
> me not to post html messages to the list. Are there email clients that 
> can't read html? 

Not the point (and yes, I do know of a few which can't read html). HTML
is for the web, not email. RTF is for word processing, not email. Plain
text is for email. Nothing else.

> Is there a list rule about what format to post in? If 
> so, I apologize for the html posts and I will post in text from now on.

Good. Some users are not on broadband. HTML emails take a lot longer to
download and cause the gnashing of teef...

TTFN

Paul
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