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I read my LD list mail on Yahoo's webmail interface. Every now and then I get an html message that renders so tiny that I literally can't read it - and it affects the layout of Yahoo's page, making all other text small also. There's nothing wrong with my eyes, either - I'm 20/20 and use a very sharp LCD display. =) I vote for plain text email as well. Mike --- Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com> wrote: > At 06:53 PM 5/20/2005, Gary Lehmann wrote: > >Was in HTML and tiny print--it should be noted that > whenever possible, one > >should post in Plain Text--that wot Kim likes and > he owns the joint. > >Altho many do not--but it's that tiny print that > gives me pause. > > It isn't about what I like or don't like. Using > plain text to post to > mailing lists has been considered good internet > etiquette since the > beginning of time. Using html has long been > considered impolite. So it is > really about whether you are being a dick to the > list or not. > > The reasons are many: > > - There are many different people on a list using > many different mail > reading programs. These handle html formatting in > many different ways. It > is very likely that the nice formatting on your > screen looks terrible for > many other subscribers, or is completely unreadable. > In some cases, the > non-standard html code used by some popular email > programs even causes > errors in other programs trying to read it. > > - html formatted emails are used by hackers and > spammers for a variety of > evil purposes, to infect and spy on people. For this > reason, many prudent > people turn off the html features of their mail > reading program. This means > it is further likely that your html mail will look > weird on other people's > screen. > > - html formatting can screw up the digest versions > of mailing lists, making > the digest hard or impossible to read for many > people, even screwing up > other people's nice plain text posts. > > - Also, some people's email programs will view the > digest as plain text, > and your mail will just look like html code for > them. Most people won't > bother to try to read your html code and just skip > over it. > > - html formatting adds at least 3 times more crap to > your email for the > html code. (sometimes waaaayyyy more than that, I've > seen a few sentences > turn into 200k emails.) This pointlessly wastes > bandwidth and disk space > for EVERYBODY on the list, not just me and my > server. Not everybody on the > list has a fast connection or unlimited email disk > space. > > - The extra html code means the digest gets sent out > prematurely since you > hogged up all the space, further irritating digest > readers. > > - And for all the headaches caused, the html > formatting adds no useful > content that wasn't already there with the plain > text! > > kim > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | > http://www.loopers-delight.com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com