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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:46:57AM +0100, Tom Insam wrote:
> >So why do people assume that my mail application displays HTML, or that
> >I want it to?
>
> I'd guess it's because 99% of people who can read email, can read HTML
> email. It's a perfectly reasonable assumption. Furthermore, that mail
> was sent as a multipart/alternative, with a text part and an HTML part,
> also a perfectly reasonable thing to do, and if your mail client can't
> deal with it and display the right part to you, this is your problem.
>
> Having said that, the _correct_ rant is that the plain text part of
> that email looks like this:
The correct rant is why is anyone bother with formatting tags in a
message with simple content like that? Most uses of Word/HTML are pointless
exercises in amatuer font layout. I don't need my paths to come out in
typewriter, I already use a fixed width font as God intended. Thanks.
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