[Vision2020] HTML e-mail poll

[Chasuk]

> > 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,

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree (I know, a horrible
cliché, but appropriate in this case).  Reading plaintext is like
reading a novel in which the publisher has thankfully _not_ employed
scribes to re-write the entire work in Crayola.  E-mail is not
analogous to speaking; it has greater similarity to personal letters
or epistles, which did not have to resort to gimcrack devices to make
their point.

Of course, there are exceptions, but IMHO opinion HTML should be
reserved for use on the World Wide Web, instead of in e-mails where it
is more often obtrusive than useful.

Understand that I disagree with Lewis Carroll's Alice.  I prefer a
minimum of pictures in my books unless it is specifically a picture
book, where pictures are expected, and even welcomed.

Anyway, include HTML in your e-mails if you want, and I will somehow
manage to survive.  I didn't intend to cause such a hullabaloo with my
really very minor objection.