[Hudlug] Plain Text emails

[Ben Fowler]

>From: "Ross Brown" <ross@FL42.com>
>I'm the opposite, by default "html".
>
>I know... I know... but your average Joe expects nice fonts in an email
>and wonders why your email likes a teleprompt if you don't!

I am not sure how the term "average Joe" helps us.

All over the net (a search on Google give these hits)

<URL: http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/PlainText.html >
<URL: http://www.lowendmac.com/triasic/02/1022.html >
<URL: 
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-dev/2000-December/007451.html 
 >
<URL: http://www.gaertner.de/~neitzel/email-to-mn.html >
<URL: http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/email.shtml >
<URL: http://www.seas.rochester.edu:8080/CNG/docs/PopMail.html >

people are begging and pleading with correspondents NOT to send them HTML,
but only plain text.

A good guide is this>
<URL: http://amcofa.net/emailNONO/nomime.shtml >

If you want 'nice fonts' in your e-mail, please adjust your client
(Thunderbird can do this, as it uses the Gecko renering engine)
to set your incoming mail as your prefer it.

Please understand that unless there is a silent majority that I am unaware
of, a preference for

    No spam at all
    No viruses at all
    plain text only

is more or less universal amongst people who read e-mail.

Ben

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