On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 01:10 AM, D R Stinson wrote:
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.
Virtually any modern e-mail client will allow the override of font choice and font size when reading, while retaining everything else.
I'd be giving anyone who used 4 of 6 point size of any font grief, as that's "small print" in every sense of the word.? As to larger point sizes, well, I can read any of them.
But my main point being that if one wants to override font and point size choices one does not care for, yet retain things like bold, italic, embedded links, etc., it's simple to do under most modern e-mail clients.
It's any owner's right to set a group to plain text, but all members should be made aware of that upon joining, as it wouldn't be the default expectation these days.? It also saves them doing any number of things they might normally do with regard to formatting as they then know it would be stripped.? I know how to go back to old-style indications for _underline_ and *italic* (or is that bold) and similar and would use those conventions if I know I'm going to be converted to plain text.
In this day and age HTML is the
de facto standard, and any random user
not explicitly informed otherwise has every reason to believe that HTML format is going to be used.
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Brian
? ?Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
? ? ? ? ? ?~ Katharine Graham
