Re: OT: Flamebait: Text vs HTML email
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 22:44, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
>
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 20:29, Travis Crump wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 19:10, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 06:55:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> > > Though amazingly, you were able to /add/ *bold* formatting to a _plain
> > > text e-mail_ :)
> >
> > People devised these de facto standards because of the inadequacy
> > of plain ACSII. Good examples of judicious use are at linuxtoday.com
> > and slashdot, where italics, bold and underline are allowed, but
> > the potential for abuse (i.e. color and point size).
>
> Aw, c'mon now, Ron! /. easy to read and digest?
No, didn't say that. I said that slashdot is a good example of
the judicious use of bold and underline (s/underline/italics/).
That's all I said. Nothing more, nothing less.
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