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Actually as a visually challenged person, I prefer plain text e-mail for the
most part. I use lookout as my client and I can use my mouse wheel while
holding the ctrl key to enlarge the characters. You can not do that with
html e-mail.
Gerry Johnson
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Ken Hirsch
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 11:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP3000 sending html mail
Wayne R. Boyer wrote:
> > DID I MENTION IT WAS A BAD IDEA?
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> Well Stan I agree with you but... why do some people want to do this? Is
the
> desire to HTML-ize email simply based upon a perceived need to 'pretty'
> things up? Is there something that I am missing?
I almost never send HTML mail out, but I find it hard to understand the
animosity. Bandwidth? I haven't seen that as an issue since 28.8K modems
came out. Accessability? IE can read HTML text to blind people just as
well as text/plain. Do magazines like Time and Newseek violate the spirit
of the ADA because they include pictures? Please.
Although plain text is adequate for _most_ uses, it isn't *hard* to come up
with a few shortcomings, like the limited choices of *emphasis*.
Or, shall we bring up line breaks in URLS:
http://www.interex.org/conference/hpe3000solutions2002/agendad
etail.html
Try giving a table in plain text when most readers are going to render it in
variable width fonts, in addition to line wrap.
Region Percentage Undernourished
1969-71 1979-81 1990-92 1996-98
Sub-Saharan Africa 34 37 35 34
Near East and North Africa 25 9 8 10
East and South East Asia 43 29 17 13
South Asia 38 38 26 23
Latin America and the Caribbean 19 13 13 11
All Developing Regions 37 29 20 18
What, are y'all reading your email in Pine? How Twentieth-Century!
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