That is very nice of you and shows great mailing list etiquette. Bret. On Friday 29 February 2008 2:43:20 pm Don Sparish wrote: > Since it seems to annoy him so much I'll just keep on using it. > > > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:12:51 -0600 > > "Samir M. Nassar" <samir.nassar+tclug at steamedpenguin.com> wrote: > > On Friday 29 February 2008 13:41:24 Brian Dunnette > > > >wrote: > >> Every time you use a mail client that doesn't gracefully > >>deal with HTML, > >> another Ron Paul story appears on Reddit. > > > > My mail client deals just fine with HTML. I don't have > >my mail client set to > > automagically parse HTML. I also make sure that when I > >use a mail client that > > I don't send out HTML mail. Mail clients read and > >display text just fine. > > They even have decent conventions for quoting mail. > > > > Attached are html.txt and message.txt > > > > message.txt weighs in at 553 bytes > > html.txt weighs in at 256 bytes > > > > If the formatting had added anything of worth, fine. But > >in this case the text > > was not marked up. You know, the Markup in Hyper-text > >Markup Language? Why > > would you need to markup anyway? Since you are throwing > >around graceful > > clients, how graceful is a mail client when it can parse > >HTML but can't turn > > a lonely URL into a link? > > > > If you notice, the HTML itself sucks sweaty goat balls, > >all repetitive break > > tags. If you are sending HTML mail, why again is the > >mail client using font > > declarations? > > > > Lastly it is a pretty long standing convention to not > >abuse mailing lists by > > sending HTML mail. > > > > Samir M. Nassar > > > > PS- Thank you for changing the subject line, something I > >neglected to do. -- Bret Baptist Senior Network Administrator bbaptist at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 x17 Providing Internet Services since 1995 Web Development ~ Search Engine Marketing ~ Web Analytics Network Security ~ On Demand Tech Support ~ E-Mail Marketing ------------------------------------------