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[Kim Holburn]

Actually what most people want is to be able to use fonts, styles,  
face sizes in email.  This is not such a bad thing and not a bad  
thing to want either in this day and age.

What is needed to accomplish this safely is a standard for a  
restricted subset of HTML (excluding external images) and a special  
set of linking styles that do not obfuscate the URL and email HTML  
could be fine.

HTML email is not as such, by itself, necessarily, inherently evil.  
(not sure I've got the punctuation right there)

On 2007/Sep/28, at 1:44 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> Ivan Trundle wrote:
>
>> "According to surveys by online marketing companies, the vast  
>> majority of Internet users can access HTML mail, and a smaller  
>> number, though still the majority, prefer it over plain text..."
>
> BY default, all Mozilla email products have HTML email enabled for
> sending and receiving. And I have never been able to turn off HTML
> receiving.
>
> I assume that the Mozilla developers are cluey and know that HTML  
> email
> is evil, so I must conclude that they are bowing to market pressure
> by leaving HTML turned on be default in their email products.
>
> What is good for the marketplace is not necessarily good for the
> individual or society.
>
>> I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions from this statement.  
>> For more fun, try googling 'html mail evil' in your spare time.
>
> 18,400,000 hits!
>
>
> cheers
> rickw
>
>
>
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