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On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 8:18 pm, Mike Tidball wrote: > Hi, > Simple question,why is an html e-mail not exeptable on this forum. In no particular order, (and it's not just here, most mailing lists will take a dislike to HTML users). 1. Bloat. HTML is necessarily at least twice the size of the same plain text email. 2. Most people delete HTML email - it's commonly spam 3. Because of 2, a lot of people thoroughly distrust HTML email and nothing anyone can say will change that 4. Most people here are not Windows users so it isn't a direct threat to security but HTML email still has that reputation (and rightly so). 5. This is a forum for discussion not presentation. 6. KISS - HTML emails break horribly when someone replies in plain text. 7. It's established policy from a series of threads over the years. Thinking about it, MY personal order for those would be 1,5,7,6,2,3,4 > I tried highlighting some text from a shell and thought that changing > the colour would help. email clients usually do the colour thing for replies and quote levels. If you want to emphasise something, use smilies or underline it like this. **************** (If it doesn't line up, people can switch to fixed font and get your meaning.) > Sorry if that was a problem but I thought everyone would be using > software that would cope with that. The software can handle it, the users prefer not to have it rammed down their inbox. :-) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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