[wellylug] WellyLUG List Noise Levels

[Ian Beardslee]

Ok everyone repeat after me ... Friends don't send friends HTML!

I use a common plain text email client both at home and at work - Outlook 
2000.

I go to great pains to make sure every reply I do to a HTML email is done 
as plain text.  The default setup at work uses plain text - I love the 
power :-).  I make sure I subscribe to the plain text version of 
newsletters, and tell people that when they make the newsletters plain 
text I will resubscribe - hey if they want to sell or advertise something 
they'll do it.

Mind you if I had to choose between the 2 evils I would go for the HTML 
over Outlook Rich Text.  We have had trouble sending emails to some 
organisations when we use Rich Text, I understand that some versions of 
Lotus Notes spit the dummy over Rich Text.

Yes HTML is common, but still far from the lowest common denominator.  If 
this was a MS mailing list I would say go with the HTML, but because we 
use Linux (or at least pretend to :-), and use it at various levels and 
through various methods, from the gui to the command line, plain text just 
makes a lot more sense.

Just throwing my dollar's worth of kerosene into the fire ...

Ian