Hi Don, Annoying others is not the goal of this email list. And if you need someone to ask you nicely to stop using HTML email on this email list, I certainly will: Please stop senting HTML email to this email list. Thank you for your kind consideration, Troy Johnson >>> "Don Sparish" <dalan at visi.com> 2/29/2008 2:43 PM >>> Since it seems to annoy him so much I'll just keep on using it. On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:12:51 -0600 "Samir M. Nassar" <samir.nassar+tclug at steamedpenguin.com> wrote: > On Friday 29 February 2008 13:41:24 Brian Dunnette >wrote: > >> Every time you use a mail client that doesn't gracefully >>deal with HTML, >> another Ron Paul story appears on Reddit. > > My mail client deals just fine with HTML. I don't have >my mail client set to > automagically parse HTML. I also make sure that when I >use a mail client that > I don't send out HTML mail. Mail clients read and >display text just fine. > They even have decent conventions for quoting mail. > > Attached are html.txt and message.txt > > message.txt weighs in at 553 bytes > html.txt weighs in at 256 bytes > > 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? > > If you notice, the HTML itself sucks sweaty goat balls, >all repetitive break > tags. If you are sending HTML mail, why again is the >mail client using font > declarations? > > Lastly it is a pretty long standing convention to not >abuse mailing lists by > sending HTML mail. > > Samir M. Nassar > > PS- Thank you for changing the subject line, something I >neglected to do.