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Hi, Yuki:
Thanks for the HTML tutorial. I understand what you are saying. BTW, you can
delete that annoying vertical line if you place your cursor on the line just
above the text to which you want to respond (assuming there's no vertical
line above that or in the line where your cursor is), then hit the delete
key once. Voila! The line is gone until you reach the next paragraph. Now,
you can respond in a different, cutesy color. But, you're right; the
cutesy-ness is really not needed.
Regards,
AV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yuki Taga" <yukitaga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Al Venosa" <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] OT: HTML vs. Plain Text
> Hi Al,
>
> Monday, June 14, 2004, 7:57:04 AM, you wrote:
>
> AV> Yuki:
>
> AV> I changed the subject line to coincide with the subject matter. Just
> AV> curious: educate me a bit. What's wrong with receiving mail in HTML
format
> AV> besides the added byte-size of the message? I kinda like seeing
responses in
> AV> different colors; to me, HTML is preferred rather than plain text. Is
it for
> AV> security reasons? Is HTML more virus-threatening? Thanks.
>
> Two reasons: 1) size (HTM puts a much bigger load on the system in
> terms of transmission size) and 2) security, as you mentioned. Mail
> clients, like OE and Outlook, that read HTML mail directly, are
> sitting ducks. Many people, if not most, who understand the security
> issues, refuse to use them, or set them to read in plain text format.
> At the very least, they should be set to NOT download images or
> anything Active X from the Net automatically.
>
> The standard for e-mail is plain-text. Always has been. HTML mail
> is a "cutesy" MS idea that is a security risk, and one that puts a
> huge volume burden on the system. Take a look at the message from WM
> that I responded to: It's TWENTY THOUSAND kb, and it's nothing more
> than a rather short text message that was put up in HTML format. The
> same message, in plain text, would be one-fourth to one-third that
> size, maximum. It would probably be smaller, actually.
>
> I don't really make too much of an issue about it. But . . . my
> reader is set to view plain-text by default. If HTML is formatted
> with that stupid vertical line down the entire left side denoting
> quoted text, I won't see it, because I'm not about to switch back and
> forth from plain-text viewing to HTML viewing. Then if new text is
> inserted inside that line, in a different color, I don't see the
> color either. So I cannot differentiate between new and quoted text.
> It is possible to format HTML mail using standard cues for quoted
> text that will be picked up by plain text readers. That should be
> the way it's done, if you *have* to use HTML.
>
> I have two issues here, really:
>
> First, I don't care if people post in HTML, really. If they want to
> clog the system with "cuteness", that's fine with me; I have huge
> bandwidth here. But . . .
>
> 1) Plain text is the default for e-mail, and if your HTML is
> formatted to use quoted text indicators than are NOT STANDARD (like a
> vertical line down the entire left side of the text), a plain-text
> viewer is not going to pick this up, and THAT I have a problem with.
> It is not the HTML per se, but the way the HTML is formatted.
>
> 2) The lack of trimming, particularly if already squandering
> bandwidth with HTML "cuteness", is almost unforgivable IMO. TRIM the
> excess out of the message, and make it clear what is quoted, and what
> is new.
>
> I'm just going to skip over messages that are not clearly offering a
> plain text view of quoted versus new text. I read a *tremendous*
> number of e-mails daily. By far, by an overwhelming majority,
> plain-text is the rule. And plain-text is what I'm setup for. I do
> not have time to sort out quoted from new material in a message that
> is ONE PERCENT OR LESS new material, and that new material is
> embedded in an HTML message that shows the entire thing as new text
> in a plain-text viewer. I do not have that much free time, sorry.
>
> Yuki
>
>
>
>
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>
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