REFLECTOR: attached files

[Brian Michalk]

No problem with the remark.   Sarcasm does not travel very well through the
internet.  I'm looking into the attachment thing.

One nitpick I have with HTML is a personal one.  I feel that HTML emails are
overused for their purposes.
I like to set up my mailer the way I like it.  Sometimes I like to recline
and read email, and I have the option of Making the font as big as I want
to, because I can.  Sometimes when people send HTML, the font can get real
small, and then I have to lean forward to see what they wrote.  Sometimes it
can get worse.

I like HTML, but sometimes it's annoying.  I don't want to throw out the
baby with the bathwater.  Going through the archives for May, I see 256
messages.  Of those, 94 were HTML emails.  Of those, seven had embedded
images, and one had embedded Excel.
My point is that 3% of the emails for last month really needed the
functionality of HTML.


 Brian Michalk  <http://www.michalk.com>
Life is what you make of it ... never wish you had done something.
Aviator, experimental aircraft builder, motorcyclist, SCUBA diver
musician, home-brewer, entrepreneur and barely single

  -----Original Message-----
  From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On
Behalf Of Al Gietzen
  Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:52 PM
  To: reflector
  Subject: REFLECTOR: attached files


  Brian;



  I apologize for the 'dot-matrix printer' remark.  I'll admit to a tendency
toward the inclusion of sarcasm in my attempts at humor; but it was meant as
a humorous anology - not as any sort of criticism of the very fine and
generous job you have doing for all of us for a long time.



  I'm familiar with the included file of format info associated with HTML,
but I saw no format info in that file; which lead me to ask the question.
How about 'Rich text'?



  I also appreciate that not all users will have HTML translation in their
e-mail readers, which leads to superfluous characters in the reversion to
plain text.  I assumed that everyone; or nearly everyone has HTML capable
e-mail software at this point, but may well be wrong about that.



  Al




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