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At 08:00 AM 4/7/98 -0700, Randal Whittle wrote: >At 02:15 AM 4/7/98 , Robert Dewar wrote: >><< Actually Paul, his "attachment" was really just an in-line HTML >mail. >>Some mail readers (notably Netscape's & Eudora 4.0) read this just fine, >>but other mailers (I note that you are using PMMail for OS/2), not knowing >>how to show the mailing, just handle it as an attachment. >> >> For those of us using a more capable mailer (Grin!), it came through >>perfectly fine and looked pretty darn good to boot--basically it was a web >>>> >> >>It is inappropraite to send HTML mail on a mailing list like this. I just >>discarded the message, and many others will too! > > What's inappropriate about it? Is there a rule buried in the list rules >somewhere saying you can't or shouldn't? > > Its not a huge waste of bandwidth (as an attached binary would be). >Basically, if you have the kind of mailer that can read it, you saw it--if >not, you deleted it. What's the big deal? > >------- >Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 >Director, Electronic Commerce Program >Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California > The "big deal," as you put it Randy, is that the primary purpose of this list is to share information. To the degree that you suppress information by sending it in a form that's not universally accessible, you do a disservice to all. For that reason, you will find that it's generally accepted practice in newsgroups (which I would consider this list to most closely resemble) to send in plain text. That may not be the "coolest" technology, but it includes the most people. -- Peter Lewis pele@wolfenet.com