[Gllug] Email Formats

[Jim Bailey]

Hi,

This isn't really about bad email formats or even the evils of M$ it is 
about incompetent cretins who lack fundamental levels of intelligence and 
consideration for others our policy here is to sack them.  If that isn't 
possible and they continue to format difficult to read HTML emails, I 
suggest that people read up on display screen regulations and advise their 
boss that they will be suing the company for forcing them to read such 
badly formatted data and risk their health.  If this fails I suggest that 
you leave the said company as it is obviously run above mentioned cretins 
and in the current economic climate are very likely to go belly up and not 
pay you for the last month you were there.

Peace Jim

On Friday, November 23, 2001, at 08:45 AM, Nix wrote:
> It's appalling. Setting background colours or foreground colours is all
> very well, but people never do both at once; so I, with my black
> background, are faced with your[1] email, with some of your text
> coloured `Black' and others coloured `Auto', and half your email's
> disappeared, because you're too stupid to have realised that not
> everyone uses your exact colour scheme.
>
> And then there's the people who adjust only the background colour; yes,
> emails in white on glaring cream are *so* easy to read. Especially when
> they're presented in 2 point Courier.
>
>
> Users are not typographers; any user seen in proximity to a font family
> or markup scheme should be shot for our own protection.
>
>
> [1] generic Outlook-luser `your'
>
>> What you need is logical markup for emphasis and marking sections, but
>> to leave the physical representation up to the reader - like how HTML
>> was meant to work.
>
> Exactly so. (And dump the programs that generate insane HTML with the
> markup outnumbering the content by 400:1.)
>
>>> Tables
>>
>> No bad idea, if we can suppress the tendency for people to use tables
>> for things that aren't tables.
>
> ... which is probably impossible :(
>
>>> Ladies
>>
>> Not very useful in mail, I think.
>
> The people I'm currently living with I met when the lady of the house
> flamed me in email :) does that count?
>
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