[wellylug] [Fwd: Govt guidance would guarantee our geek credentials (Green Party media release)]

[Sam Cannell]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 14:28, andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Fact is that one can structure/format text perfectly
> without using HTML tags, and the old-skool way
> of making things *bold* or /italic/ or _underlined_
> work just as well, without the hassle of having to
> render anything. ;)

The "old-skool" *bold*, /italic/ and _underline_ hardly look
professional, and not everybody understands what they're intended to
mean.

> The fact that HTML formatted text is flowed more 
> nicely doesn't mean a thing since it's common 
> knowledge that a column of about 60 to 70
> characters is optimal for reading, and considering

Common knowledge?  I personally have no problem reading a page-width of
text.  I find 60-70 character wide columns irritating as each line of
text is so short - I'd much rather have a full page width.

> the fact that HTML-mail users commonly also are
> before-quoters which makes the whole issue non-
> existing when it comes to the "flow of quoted text"

I'm not quite sure what your argument is here, but it seems to be
something along the lines of "these people do something that I don't
like, therefore everything they do is wrong!!11one" ... I'll ignore it
because you seem to be making a pretty stupid assumption.

Anyway!

I'm not quite understanding what you're fighting here.  Nobody in this
thread is trying to deprive you of your text-only email.  Several people
have said that when they sign up for regular mailout-type things, they
WANT THE OPTION of being sent HTML-formatted mail.  Not that it should
be html-only, but that the recipient should get to choose.

Personally, I agree.  I'd much rather read a message with a bit of
colour and visually appealing formatting than pages upon pages of
black-and-white text.
-- 
Sam Cannell <sam at plaz.net.nz>
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