Re: One more thing... e-mails format

Cesar ... You've touched a nerve ... For a start, because the list requires it. Second, because we have no idea what kind of client the members are using. Third, plain text is all that is needed to communicate the ideas and concepts necessary to this list. Fourth, plain text renders blocks of code, indentation, etc. cleanly and consistently. Fifth, "rich" email or HTML email is a crock promoted by Microsoft, and results in unnecessarily bloated messages. Sixth, the "features" of HTML email are often employed to the detriment of clear and concise writing. And I could probably come up with more, but those are just off the top of my head. I don't know if you were around when W95 first came out, but Outlook offered, and it still does, to make Word the default email editor. For about 6 mos life on mailing lists was hell until people were trained to turn that off. Can you imagine reading an HTML formatted message in Pegasus, mutt or pine? Cheers - Miles Thompson At 02:45 AM 7/12/2002 -0300, César Aracena wrote:

It’s me again… and not PHP related. Why is it that every piece of mail I send to the list comes back as a *rich text” or sometime even “plain text”, when my M$ Outlook is set to send HTML messages? I think it would make sense if *EVERYBODY* e-mail where received like mine because of server’s settings, but some people letters appear as they intend to be. Any thoughts? Thanks, Cesar Aracena <mailto:webmaster@icaam.com.ar> CE / MCSE+I Neuquen, Argentina +54.299.6356688 +54.299.4466621