From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 22:36:41 MST
On 3/14/02 1:22 PM, "Simon McClenahan" <SMcClenahan@ATTBI.com> wrote:
>
> If you did this deliberately, then I would like to bitch back at you, quit
> your whining, get a 21st century MUA that can render in-process or with an
> external plug-in or utility, HTML or MIME attachments with quoted-printable
> text, etc.
What would be the value of these features, other than to read the broken
output of other lame MUAs? Having these features doesn't let you say
anything in email that you couldn't say already, though it does give you the
opportunity to demonstrate bad taste in style. I'm seeing lots of downside
and precious little upside. I use the latest, greatest 21st Century Wonder
Email Client, and I take advantage of its power and flexibility to
intelligently undo all the formatting and give me plain text. Half the
formatted email I receive is far worse to read than the plaintext email, and
none of it is actually better.
The justifications for the latest bright-n-shiny formatting features of MUAs
sound more like marketing copy than solid reasoning.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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