> I my opinion, HTML in emails wastes bandwidth and achieves little of benefit to anyone

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HTML has one big drawback for me that plain text doesn't. Everybody who posts in HTML seems to have their own peculiar preferences for font size and style. Some posts come in huge, seemingly 12 point or larger,?while other posters on some groups seem to post in 4 or 6 point sans serif fonts. Plain text lets my email handler?display messages using the font size *I* prefer, rather than what someone else wants to use.

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A couple of my groups have a lot of people with vision limitations and having those groups set to?plain text allows?each? member to read posts in the font and size that reads best for them. I see plain text as a recognition that others see the world differently than I do.

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As for top- vs bottom-posting, do as you prefer. For me the biggest question is, does it convey the information well, without the reader having to sort through a lot of trash?

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Dano