> If the formatting had added anything of worth, fine. But in this case the text > was not marked up. You know, the Markup in Hyper-text Markup Language? Why > would you need to markup anyway? Since you are throwing around graceful > clients, how graceful is a mail client when it can parse HTML but can't turn > a lonely URL into a link? > Point taken -- a /good/ mail client should be able to differentiate between a message that actually /uses/ markup (which would be sent as HTML) and a truly plain-text message (which would automagically be sent as plain text, just to simplify matters.) > Lastly it is a pretty long standing convention to not abuse mailing lists by > sending HTML mail. > For many years, it was also convention for all computer games to require a text parser, and/or represent players with an "@" symbol. Conventions /change/. -Brian D. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080229/91872a27/attachment.htm