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Gordon wrote:
> "Robert Moir" <robspamtrap+msnews@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uSl9weCmFHA.708@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl
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>>James wrote:
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>>>gordon wrote:
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>>>>James wrote:
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>>>>>It certainly livens up the email experience.
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>>>>
>>>>I think that's one of the saddest comments I've seen for a long
>>>>time!
>>>
>>>LOL... hey, Gord, different strokes for different...
>>>
>>>I might just as easily have remarked that your thoughts are by no
>>>means the "measure of all things", right? Because you and a few
>>>others posting here don't like html mail and the bells and whistles
>>>offered by IM, does not translate into IM being bad program. As you
>>>can see from my user agent string, I share your views regarding
>>>Thunderbird. But by no means would I attempt to dissuade someone else
>>>from using OE or Free Agent by ascribing some sort of "sad
>>>commentary" to such usage. Lighten up, Man.
>>
>>Well said.
>>
>>As the person who wrote the first and I think most venomous comment
>>about HTML mail, I want to say that I don't think it is up to me to
>>tell people what format to send their emails out in, but rather to
>>tell those people what formats i'm prepared to receive should they
>>ever want to write me. A subtle but very important difference, I'm
>>sure you'll agree.
>>
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> There's a problem with that. Unless you know that someone is going to email
> you beforehand, you can't tell them you don't accept HTML mail! Very often
> the first you know about it is when this whopping great email arrives,
> unannounced, in your inbox.
>
>
Give a little credit to the one sending the email. If I don't know the
person to whom I'm writing, I would be highly unlikely to use html. I
take the intended recipient into account. For those new to email, no
doubt they'll err and be told in no uncertain terms that their html mail
was not appreciated.
Additionally, I think that today far more are on broadband than
previously. Thus the argument that it will take forever to download this
html mail is not "as" relevant as it was a few years back. Albeit, it
still helps to know your intended audience. I really don't see IM as a
problem. As I said before, I no longer use it but my son and his wife
(as well as two of my colleagues) do and when I receive mail from them,
I enjoy the little extra touches. It's just me (and it might be "just"
the OP as well). Like I said, "different strokes..."