[Gllug] Email Formats was Where has the modem gone

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Damerell [mailto:damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk]
> 
> That place would be when you care about the content and not the
> formatting. The argument that some logical markup would improve
> matters is quite an attractive one - in and of itself it's true - but
> unfortunately that's not what we'd get; instead, the results are the
> same kind of hideousness that we get from exposing idiots to word
> processors, with gratuitous physical markup for the sake of it.
> 
> If there was some way to get some minimal logical markup into email
> instead of plain text, I'd be keen on it myself; but, sadly, HTML
> isn't it.

I have to agree with David here. I spent 8 months reading almost unreadable
email while on the OU's First Class conference/mail system (First Class was
the name of it). Individuals where colouring text in about several different
colours per email like yellow on white just because they can. I tried to
tell them that this was silly and that one word replies where a complete
waste of everyone's time they gave me the old free speech bit and that they
could do what they want blah blah and this was on what was meant to be a
technical list where content is paramount. The best information on the world
could be displayed in forty different colours splashed all over a page and I
would not read it as my eyes cannot quite grasp what on earth is going on.
HTML is not for email, I am not saying that anyone said that it is and a
decent mail format would be nice for business but please not HTML.

On another topic have you ever gone to a supposedly professional website and
as soon as it is up you can literally feel your eyes adjusting to the crazy
colour scheme. Do designers look at the sites they create or are they busy
admiring the reflection between the monitor and there Oakleys. I know they
wear Oakleys, it's the only pair of shades that will protect them from their
own nuclear colour scheme.

Sometimes I go out for fresh air and when I am online I go to google for a
glimpse of neat design.

Regards,
Harry


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