Re: HTML vs. Plain Text E-Mail (was: RE: www.freeswan.org)

[Tim Coffey <coffey@sondata.net>]

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William,

Yes, I use open source.
Yes, I use HTML (with plain text).
No. I don't use Vi or EMACS or do text formatting. I use a WYSIWYG word processing
program.

Yes, Im offended by your comment. Not for myself, but because its crap like
that, that turns the average user away from participating in forums such
as this and in turn away from the open source world. Instead of a smart-ass
comment like that, you could have kindly provided some education and asked
if the person who sent the post understood that not only dose HTML take up
more bandwidth and storage but it may be hard for some to read that have
an out of date email clients.

Of course I already knew all of this and I choose to
use HTML multipart because I like the text formatting that it allows.

I hope that you will take this into consideration before you reply to a post
in such a way again. We need to draw people in rather than run them off.

Tim



William Underwood wrote:
> 3D6D8F01.D859DE4F@charter.net">
> Tim Coffey wrote:
> > The site is reachable by me.
> >
> >     
> <snip>
> > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Casey Boone wrote:
> > > > i cant seem to get to get to this site, ive tried using my own dns
> > > > servers
> > > > as well as some of sprints
> > > > would someone else try it and see if they can get there?
> > > >           
> > >           
> >           
> <snip>
>
> Hmmm... Pretty funny, the guy using the Microsoft MUA sent plain text
> email, and the guy using the open source MUA sent HTML email...
>
> William
>
>