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GARYDJONES,i personally don't see how. mail using JPEGs to convey text is the same general effect and idea of using HTML to do the same. when you throw CSS into the mix, you might as well use JPEGs. same visual result - you just can't copy and paste.> and it is widely supported by GUI mail and news clients.
Does that mean that we should all post in jpegs since we could then achieve exactly the same thing?
That is a strawman argument and false in its own right.
so say you. i and all of the people i know need no more than text to convey simple thought. take the smileys for instance. :)
> Personal communications must extend beyond > simple text without stylistic variation for computers to fully > facilitate human communication.
Post your proof.
Ipso loquitur. People communicate audibly, visually as well as textually. Arbitrary restriction to styleless text is artificial and unjustified.
bandwidth. CPU power.
People have been using plain text to communicate quite satisfactorily, thank
you very much.
>> c) Attached images add an unnecessary burden on email downloads
> Burden? On whom?
On every single person that receives it. That much must be obvious, or are
you being deliberately obtuse?
Let me rephrase: _What_ burden? There is no burden.
...and the sender. if you send me an HTML email and i choose to bounce it, then it's also your loss that you didn't get your message through to me. and if you don't make the effort to get past whatever mechanisms i have in place - which i place for a _reason_ - then your mail isn't important to me. so, no loss. so YOU'RE the one SOL, not _me_.
> If the poster feels the need to communicate visually, > then it is their prerogative.
Just as it would be my perogative to ignore it or bounce it.
Yes, you may plug your ears and cover you eyes all you want. No one loses but you.
ew, that sucks.
>> Offending software:
>> AFAIK only MICROSOFT Outlook and Outlook Express has this enabled by
>> default; SHAME ON YOU M.S!
> Again, this is BS. I use Eudora for mail and Mozilla (and before it > Netscape) for news, and they all send HTML mail and images without a > problem.
By default?
Yes.
as well as many other things. if i wanted tripe discussions, i would have joined the tripediscussions at yahoo dot com mailing list.
> Please don't be so atavistic. By definition everyone using Cygwin is > using an operating system whose GUI subsystem is not optional.
Whereas html /is/ optional.
So are lower-case letters.
Randall Schulz
-- Charles "grey wolf" Banas http://the-junkyard.net tech advisor
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