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<pre wrap="">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?
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Point taken -- a <i>good</i> mail client should be able to
differentiate between a message that actually <i>uses</i> 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.)<br>
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<pre wrap="">Lastly it is a pretty long standing convention to not abuse mailing lists by
sending HTML mail.
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For many years, it was also convention for all computer games to
require a text parser, and/or represent players with an "@" symbol.<br>
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Conventions <i>change</i>.<br>
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-Brian D.<br>
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