[GRLUG] Newbie running into real headaches

[john-thomas richards]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:38:35PM -0400, Collin wrote:
> john-thomas richards wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:16:38PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi -
> >>
> >> Could you send your e-mails to the
> >> group in text format?
> >>     
> >
> > What mail client are you using?  I use mutt which is about as texty (is that a
> > word?) as you can get and his email displays just fine.  Then again, it
> > included an html attachment...
> >   
> Yeah, I can't figure out why some people are so anal about HTML emails. 
> Get a friggin' html compliant email browser for God's sake. This is 2007 
> not 1973.

Email is about text.  The Web is about pretty graphics and fancy typefaces.  He
is correct that email should be in plain text.  Not everyone uses GUI mail
clients, nor should everyone.  Email is like a newspaper.  The Web is like a
magazine.  One is read for information and the other for entertainment
(primarily).
-- 
john-thomas
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