HTML is very much a retrograde step.
HTML was designed for web pages -- it does not map exactly to email.
Yecch.
See http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
Furthermore, it allows me to track when you read my email, on what
machine (operating system etc) and where.
Tim Trent wrote:
> Since we enabled HMTL I have had one peculiarity reported to me, and the
> helpline is looking at it currently. A Netscape user is receiving both the
> TEXT version and an "unrendered" HTML version in text format. Naturally he
> is perplexed. Me, too, so I have asked the helpline to advise us both.
>
> Meanwhile I can commend HTML mode to you. Experiment by sending "set *
> HTML" (for all lists) or "set data-protection HTML" for this list alone to
> [log in to unmask] It does make emails somewhat more "as the sender
> intended" (this one mini-glitch notwithstanding), and you can always set it
> back if you do not like it.
>
> All new users will join as HTML users from now on, but any setting may be
> changed by any user at any time and as often as desired.
>
> What we are trying to do now we've actually started to understand how to
> configure the list is to make it better for all of us, and letting us use
> all the options available when we submit items to the list.
>
> There is even an IRC-like chatroom! (accessed from the web) It's available
> for anyone to use, but no-one tends to lurk there waiting for people to talk
> to them. A good use might be to find a topic of interest to a small or wide
> part of our community, announce a data and time, and have a discussion. I
> suspect the early ones will be a bit like one handed clapping, but they
> should grow.
>
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