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At 07:26 PM 04/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:03:55 -0400, you wrote:
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>>In the beginning......the Internet carried only "plain text" -- letters,
>>number, punctuation, and spaces, but no fancy formatting, ............
>
>Wow Chuck, that was a great post..... I think your final statement:
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>> The various e-mail programs have settings for limiting themselves
>> to "plain text," though it is more often expressed as a choice not
>> to use "styled" or HTML output.
>
>Sums it up. It's akin to seeing the newbies typing in all uppers.
>FWIW, some think that it is "shouting" when in fact it is very
>difficult to read if there are more than 10 lines of text.
>
>-÷ Chris ß ÷-
>
>I must admit I like the thought of seeing the chart displayed with the
>text. However, I like to sometime save the chart along with text in my
>PIM (Info-Select from www.miclog.com).
>
>
Thanks for the kind words, Chris. I seem to have an impulse to instruct,
and I enjoy writing; the combination can get me carried away sometimes.
I think in the long run we'll all move away from plain-text to HTML-enabled
e-mail. It does have the advantage, as some list members pointed out, of
displaying the attached chart immediately in the e-mail window itself,
rather than obliging the recipient to open a separate program. But the
extensive text formatting that often shows up seems to me unnecessary.
Nonetheless, we'll probably soon find ourselves being solicited by high
priced web design consultants eager to create for us our unique individual
e-mail "looks" -- e-mail meets feng-shui. Ain't progress wonderful?
Best regards--
Chuck
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