Re: [TCLUG:11730] HTML email on a list?

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:11730] HTML email on a list?
From: Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:30:05 -0600
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912301018460.23436-100000@geeks.linux.com>; from chewie@wookimus.net on Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 10:20:22AM -0800
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Quoting ^chewie (chewie@wookimus.net):
> Are you friggin nuts?  What reason would you ever have for creating HTML
> email?  Yes, it is more portable and useable than RTF, but what's wrong
> with text?  I see no complelling reason to use or promote HTML email.
> Before you know it, people will be sending HTML mail with tons of GIF
> attachments to email lists and mass emails.  I'm sorry, but I don't buy
> it.

I actually filter it out on this list. It messes up the web archives of the
mailing list.
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