On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 08:22:11 -0700
Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Please ensure to send only PLAIN TEXT to the list. Color and font
> >formatting like below are NOT understood by email-clients and does
> >thus degrade readability.
> >
> >Please, stick to plain-text. Makes it easier for everyone.
> >
> >--thomas
>
> Not really true. Email clients understand it fine. It is the list
> digest software that does not understand it. That is why all the
> complaints about the digest disappear when you subscribe to the
> non-digest form of the list.
With all due respect, Winsor :)
What you write is not true atall. My email client, e.g., does
*NOT* understand whatever formatting codes were inserted in the
previous mail. As a matter of fact, I'd bet that only a few (perhaps
only one....) email client would understand those formatting codes.
HTML mail (which the previous mail was not, although it syntactically
may look that way) is understood my more email clients - yet still
not by the majority, which is why it too should be avoided
alltogether.
The only real standard for encoding of emails is plain-text.
Everything beyond that is vendor-specific/proprietary solutions.
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Thomas Heide Clausen
Civilingeniør i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
M.Sc in Computer Engineering
E-Mail: T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~voop
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