HTML Messages

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Erickson [mailto:derick at shark.zeni.net]
 
> In article <005801c1842d$e8748670$17960c0a at uhc.com> you write:
> >Do you all see why you need to TURN OFF HTML MESSAGES now?  PLEASE?
 
> I'm all for turning off HTML messages, but have no faith that 
> education will achieve this.  But, what happened that we should 
> see the need for this now?  What did I miss?

The messages that got re-sent by the list software were formatted so that my
reader, at least, didn't translate the HTML but treated it as text.  I was
hoping that if people saw what sewage they were spewing all over the
internet they might take it seriously.  Interestingly, it's not all
Microsoft's fault, several of the HTML culprits are using Netscape
Messenger.  I now recall that there were a couple of the several mail
programs that come with Mandrake 8.1 which default to sending HTML.

TURN IT OFF PEOPLE, PLEASE!  You don't need HTML to format a paragraph of
text in an email!