<div id="_htmlarea_default_style_" style="font:10pt arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Since Im using a web based mail client
provided by the ISP. I have no way to shut it off anyway, etiquette has nothing to do with it.<br><br><br>On Fri, 29 Feb
2008 14:54:52 -0600<br> Bret Baptist <bbaptist@iexposure.com> wrote:<br>> That is very nice of you and shows
great mailing list <br>>etiquette.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Bret.<br>> <br>> On Friday 29 February
2008 2:43:20 pm Don Sparish wrote:<br>>> Since it seems to annoy him so much I'll just keep on <br>>>using
it. <br>>><br>>><br>>> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:12:51 -0600<br>>><br>>> "Samir M.
Nassar" <br>>><samir.nassar+tclug@steamedpenguin.com> wrote:<br>>> > On Friday 29 February 2008
13:41:24 Brian Dunnette<br>>> ><br>>> >wrote:<br>>> >> Every time you use a mail client
that doesn't <br>>>gracefully<br>>> >>deal with HTML,<br>>> >> another Ron Paul story
appears on Reddit.<br>>> ><br>>> > My mail client deals just fine with HTML. I don't have<br>>>
>my mail client set to<br>>> > automagically parse HTML. I also make sure that when I<br>>> >use a
mail client that<br>>> > I don't send out HTML mail. Mail clients read and<br>>> >display text just
fine.<br>>> > They even have decent conventions for quoting mail.<br>>> ><br>>> > Attached
are html.txt and message.txt<br>>> ><br>>> > message.txt weighs in at 553 bytes<br>>> >
html.txt weighs in at 256 bytes<br>>> ><br>>> > If the formatting had added anything of worth, fine.
<br>>>But<br>>> >in this case the text<br>>> > was not marked up. You know, the Markup in
Hyper-text<br>>> >Markup Language? Why<br>>> > would you need to markup anyway? Since you are
<br>>>throwing<br>>> >around graceful<br>>> > clients, how graceful is a mail client when it can
<br>>>parse<br>>> >HTML but can't turn<br>>> > a lonely URL into a link?<br>>>
><br>>> > If you notice, the HTML itself sucks sweaty goat <br>>>balls,<br>>> >all repetitive
break<br>>> > tags. If you are sending HTML mail, why again is the<br>>> >mail client using
font<br>>> > declarations?<br>>> ><br>>> > Lastly it is a pretty long standing convention to
not<br>>> >abuse mailing lists by<br>>> > sending HTML mail.<br>>> ><br>>> > Samir
M. Nassar<br>>> ><br>>> > PS- Thank you for changing the subject line, something
<br>>>I<br>>> >neglected to do.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Bret Baptist<br>>
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