I'll second that, Steve.
And many people, especially on older Unix-boxes, cannot read html mail
at all - no matter what their provider gives them.
Why is the use of html forbidden in Usenet newsgroups? Good!
Let's keep the same policy for mailing lists, please. Of course
private email may be different.
I have made a list of notorious mailing list html-users, and they are
all in my OM-list kill-filter. From them no tags, no piccies, no sigs
- but unfortunately also no message content at all will ever reach
me...
Frank.
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:33:28 -0500, Steve Dropkin <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>So why does my mail-reader have to handle HTML just because it's
>possible? I can read perfectly well -- in fact, better -- without
>blinking green 14-point Arial text and animated icons and all that
>HTML-tag junk that some other mail readers leave behind. I don't want
>to wait on my 56K connection to download some useless .GIF file in
>someone's sig file, either. Give it to me straight. I can take it. :-)
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