[TriLUG] HTML email

[John Franklin]

On Jan 8, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Jon Carnes wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:04, Dan Monjar wrote:
>> --On Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:29:45 AM -0500 Magnus Hedemark
>> <chrish at trilug.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> BTW: Embrace the new era and accept that HTML email is here to 
>>>> stay...
>>
>> *checks calendar*... yup, pretty much time to have this debate again.
>>
>> HTML mail is an abomination and it sucks, too.
>>
>> It is almost as bad as having a server that attaches winmail.dat 
>> files to
>> every message it sends.  (I long for that discussion as well)...
>
> I'll sit this one out (too busy getting ready for tonight).
>
> But I will send one more salvo across the bow...
>
> The text email that I get is almost always from technical sources that 
> I
> respect (though the content isn't always technical or respectful).
>
> The html email that I get is either spam or from **paying** clients.  
> So
> even though html is the "spammers choice", I love html email.  Consider
> me a victim of Pavlov's law.
>
> Jon Carnes
>
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