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

[frog@intertek.net]

If you can read this you're too close to the monitor.


Tim Coffey wrote:
> 
> 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 but it may be hard for some to read that have an out of date email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:
> 
> > 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
> >

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