HTML posting

[Kendric Beachey]

On Friday 02 May 2003 08:40 am, Jason Crowe wrote:
> If you don't like html messages why not filter them on your own
> machine(or use a text email client)? I don't like html messages, but
> that doesn't mean I am not willing to hear what someone has to say just
> because they do.

I hate HTML mail almost as much as I hate top-posting.  ;-)

But when I write email from work, I have to jump through a hoop on every 
message to keep HTML from happening.  I have set Ouchlook (the only MUA that 
can talk MAPI without me spending my own money) to make "Plain Text" the 
default for my messages, but our stinkin' Exchange server turns everything 
into HTML as it hands it to the outside world.  UNLESS, that is, I pull up 
the Properties for the message and choose Mail Options, Attachment Style, 
UUENCODE which will force the server to leave it as plain text.  (Even if 
there are no actual attachments.)

There is no global setting for this.  I have to do it for EVERY message I 
send.  Sometimes (often) I forget to jump through this hoop and I 
accidentally send HTML email out to the world.

As a result of this sad situation, I would advocate against outright banning 
of HTML email from the list.

-- 
Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of
public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree
which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or
inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the
Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should
be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it
is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him
when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both
base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the
President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any
one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or
unpleasant, about him than about any one else." 

--Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918