[Vision2020] HTML e-mail poll

[John D]

Ironically, this e-mail was not picked up by the V2020
archives...
http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2005-November/022031.html

--- Art Deco <deco at moscow.com> wrote:

> Chas, John D, et al,
> 
> Luckily for those that hate HTML email:  For most
> email programs, there is an option to
> receive/translate all HTML, XML, etc. emails as
> plaintext.  Of course, there may be a loss of
> formatting, special characters, and a loss of any
> non-textual graphics.  
> 
> The only non-plaintext emails that sometimes do not
> translate correctly for me using Outlook Express are
> ones that contain faulty JavaScript, Active X,
> and/or Java modules.  Generally speaking, these
> emails are machine generated and sent using a more
> sophisticated email program rather than sent from
> the compose-send function of common email programs
> now existing that an individual might use.  
> 
> [Aside:  However, in Outlook Express, in rich text
> mode, the user has the option of altering the HTML
> code generated.  This option, for example, allows
> the use of 256^3 colors for text instead of just 16
> and the use of different font sizes instead of the 7
> that the program normally offers.  To see/use this
> feature, select Rich Text as the formatting option,
> start to write a new email, then click on the Source
> tab at the bottom of the window to see/alter the
> code generated.]
> 
> For those who choose to use and/or to view the
> results of the richer formatting and of graphics
> enabled by HTML, XML, etc, there is an option to do
> that also.
> 
> Those like Sunil, who has been accused of being
> cardinally sinful and who has also been direly
> threatened for using HTML, you may rest easy. 
> Unless you are intentionally inserting faulty
> modules in your HTML emails, readers using the most
> common email programs can read your epistles in
> plaintext without problems except those mentioned in
> the first paragraph above.
> 
> Reading plaintext is like listening to someone talk
> in a monotone and without the help of illustrations.
>  HTML, etc  makes it possible to use different
> stylistic devices and graphics like speakers use
> voice tone, volume, inflection, stress, photographs,
> 
> 
> and other graphic types:
> .
> 
> I, for one, greatly resist efforts curtailing the
> freedom of expression and the ways to achieve
> legally that expression.  Others feel differently.
> 
> So each user has a choice!   
> 
> No one is going to die or even be severely maimed by
> the choice of someone else in this regard.  Each may
> send or receive in the mode of their choice without
> fear of inciting The Second Coming or of being
> forced to listen to Barry Manilov for 24 continuous
> hours.
> 
> Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
> 
> deco at moscow.com
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: John D 
>   To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
>   Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:45 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Vision2020] HTML e-mail poll
> 
> 
>   > Chas wrote: 
>   > "I, myself, hate HTML formatting in e-mail. I
> don't 
>   > want enlarged fonts, images, color, or anything
> but 
>   > plain text. Am I a curmudgeon, or do others
> agree 
>   > with me?" 
> 
>   I agree with Chas.
>   http://www.expita.com/nomime.html 
> 
> 
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> Chas, John D, et al,
> 
> Luckily for those that hate HTML email for most
> email programs, there is an option to
> receive/translate all HTML, XML, etc. emails as
> plaintext.  Of course, there may be a loss of
> formatting, special characters, and a loss of any
> non-textual graphics.  
> 
> The only non-plaintext emails that sometimes do not
> translate correctly for me using Outlook Express are
> ones that contain faulty JavaScript, Active X,
> and/or Java modules.  Generally speaking, these
> emails are machine generated and sent using a more
> sophisticated email program rather than sent from
> the compose-send function of common email programs
> now existing such as an individual might use.  
> 
> [Aside:  However, in Outlook Express, in rich text
> mode, the user has the option of altering the HTML
> code generated.  This option, for example, allows
> the use of 256^3 colors for text instead of just 16
> and the use of different font sizes instead of the 7
> that the program normally offers.  To see/use this
> feature, select Rich Text as the formatting option,
> start to write a new email, then click on the Source
> tab at the bottom of the window to see the code
> generated.]
> 
> For those who choose to use and/or to view the
> results of the richer formatting and of graphics
> enabled by HTML, XML, etc, there is an option to do
> so also.
> 
> Those like Sunil, who has been accused of being
> cardinally sinful and who has also been direly
> threatened for using HTML, you may rest easy. 
> Unless you are intentionally inserting faulty
> modules in your HTML emails, readers using the most
> common email programs can read your epistles in
> plaintext without problems.
> 
> Reading plaintext is like listening to someone talk
> in a monotone and without the help of illustrations.
>  HTML, etc  makes it possible to use different
> stylistic devises and graphics like speakers use
> voice tone, volume, inflection, and illustrations.
> 
> I, for one, greatly resist efforts curtailing the
> freedom of expression and the ways to achieve that
> expression.  Others feel differently.
> 
> So each user has a choice.  
> 
> No one is going to die or even be severely maimed by
> the choice of someone else in this regard.  Each may
> send or receive in the mode of their choice without
> fear of inciting The Second Coming or of being
> forced to listen to Barry Manilov for 24 continuous
> hours.
> 
> Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
> deco at moscow.com
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: John D 
>   To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
>   Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:45 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Vision2020] HTML e-mail poll
> 
> 
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