[Gllug] Email Formats

[Paul Brazier]

> On , 22 Nov 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:
> >I've made them several times, very clearly. Agree or not, I 
> don't care,
> >but the world has uses for tables in emails (for example), 
> people need
> >HTML mail functionality, and that's why it's so successful. 
> 
> You canot be serious. Whether or not people need it, it's successful
> largely because OE makes it easy to send without knowing it.

Is there any real difference between <b>this<b> and *this*?
One is standard HTML markup the other is a "de-facto" standard that has
evolved.
You see people invent their own markup all the time e.g. <rant> or
<voice:style = whisper> or whatever.
Even "emoticons" could be seen as markup I suppose.
I guess the problem is people overdoing it or automated tools overdoing
it for you.

A lot of people don't even realise they're sending HTML email.

I'm on some lists where HTML gets mangled in the listserver somehow and
emails come through as a mess which can't be reconstructed even by email
clients that do it for you. Even though it is often mentioned a lot of
people (non-technical) still can't manage to turn off their HTML.


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