From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jun 15 14:59:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 15 Jun 2001 21:59:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 80197 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2001 21:59:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Jun 2001 21:59:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 15 Jun 2001 21:59:23 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15B1ce-0003pG-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:59:20 -0700 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:59:20 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [cht@gis.net: Why HTML-formatted email is wrong] Message-ID: <20010615145920.M14438@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell Heh heh. -Robin ----- Forwarded message from Chris Tucker ----- From: Chris Tucker Subject: Why HTML-formatted email is wrong To: gt-pfrc@gt.org Envelope-to: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Delivery-date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:52:24 -0700 Reply-To: gt-pfrc@gt.org {#} Replies are directed back to gt-pfrc@gt.org {#} To reply to the author, write to Chris Tucker I finally got around to sticking an image on my website: That shows why HTML is not a good thing for email. I use Eudora Pro 4.3 on my old PowerMac. My monitor is 640X480. The gif is made up of several screencaptures of something C|Net sent me a while ago when they switched from ASCII text to HTML. (And switched without asking me if I wanted to be switched, either. Stupid sods!) This is NOT pretty. Children, nervous women and men with weak or frail dispositions are encouraged not to click on the link above. The Mgt. -- Chris Tucker cht@gis.net http://www.gis.net/~cht {#}----------------------+[ GT/PFRC -- Science Fact and Science Fiction ]+--- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/