[pianotech] point of-

[John Delacour]

At 20:36 -0800 7/2/10, David Love wrote:

>My default setting is plain text but I suppose if someone posts in html my
>email program responds in kind.  Sorry about that.  Are all my posts coming
>through that way?  Nothing I'm receive is.


I don't know what preferences Outlook gives but some programmes will 
send by default in plain text or html according to the options you 
have set and then override the default for replies to formatted 
messages.

I have Eudora set to send plain text and to ask me before sending a 
formatted new message or reply whether I want it formatted or plain. 
Occasionally, if for example I am including pictures in the message 
or really need formatting so that the recipient sees the columns of a 
table lined up with a monospaced font such as Courier, then I use 
html.

Using formatting (html) by default, as so many people do, is a great 
waste of space and often makes the message unreadable, or at least 
unpleasant, to a lot of readers.  Plain text is the norm on most 
mailing lists and a lot of them actually forbid formatted messages. 
Every mail agent lets the user set his options to send plain text. 
Unfortunately Microsoft, those masters of extreme bad taste and bad 
style, send out their hideous mail programmes with the default set to 
send html.

JD




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