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Re: ATM Why some people don't like html email
I have never had a message appear with visible html encoding tags. I use
Microsoft Outlook 4.something. Although I assume it may be irksome for
people who cling to earlier mail client versions, my Outlook client
apparently just automatically converts html to text.
Also, it is simple to just drag any message to the desktop and then look at
it in a browser like Netscape or Explorer. I just tried that, takes a couple
seconds, and it worked fine, too.
----- Original Message -----
From: mjc5 <mjc5@psu.edu>
To: natsp <natsp@alltel.net>; <atm@shore.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 7:09 PM
Subject: ATM Why some people don't like html email
>
> natsp wrote:
>
> > why does it hurt your eyes?
>
> I guess I'm trying in vain re this subject, even if I said I'd just
> delete messages in htmlk without reading them.
>
> This message is not a reply specifically to Stan, but since he raised
> the question as to why it hurts some people's eyes, I thought maybe aome
> example would be in order.
>
> I would send this message to those of us who are sending messages to
> the list in HTML format to show exactly WHY it is a problem for some
> people.
>
> Here is a sample of what happens to some readers mail when they get a
> message in HTML format: (note, I put the asterisks in to keep some
> programs from forcing a read on the html. I don't know if it would, but
> hey)
>
> *<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> *<html>
> *<head>
> * <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1">
> * <meta name="Author" content="Mikey Coslo">
> * <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.73 [en] (Win98; U)
> [Netscape]">
> * <title>Untitled</title>
> *</head>
> *<body text="#FFFFFF" bgcolor="#66FFFF" link="#0000EE" vlink="#00CC00"
> alink="#FF0000">
> *<font color="#000000">
> *This is an example of what you get in some mail readers if you try to
> send
> *a</font>
> *<br><font color="#000000">message in html.</font>
> *<p><font color="#000000"> The
> *html (HyperText Markup Language) encoding comes across as text,</font>
> *<br><font color="#000000">and the reader will see all the non-message
> portions
> *of the posting.</font>
> *<p><font color="#000000">It is very annoying, to say the least.</font>
> *<br>
> *<br>
> *<br>
> *</body>
> *</html>
>
> Not very pleasant to look at is it? You may be asking for help from
> someone and at the same time forcing them to read all that junk. I
> apologise to all the users who are getting yet another message with all
> the html in it, but hopefully this will illustrate for everyone what
> they might be doing.
>
> Know your mail reader. Learn it. And whatever you do, don't be one of
> those people who have the blinking lights on yer VCR because you don't
> read the instructions. 8^)
>
> This is something that belongs in the faq, methinks.
>