I sure hope not.  I hate to sound atavistic here, but I just don't see any
benefit from all of this fancy colored text in email.  The emails I get from
some of the folks that work in my company are just ludicrous.  There's 1 line
of information, and then 10 lines of colorful multi-font signature.  I find it
to be simply disruptive....


Of course, that's just me (living in my little *nix corner of the world).


And, of course, this is totally off topic :-)




>  In the long run, people will use HTML.

>

>  LaTeX or other invented formats aren't sufficiently better (better =

>  meaning less features in this case).

>    ----- Original Message -----=20

>    From: Lex Spoon=20

>    To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu=20

>    Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 1999 8:51 pm

>    Subject: Re: page width

>

>

>    Agreed. Many readers can handle the un-wrapped text, but why =

>  pointlessly be a headache for those that can't? There's a clear standard =

>  for Internet email, and trying to muscle in a new one just isn't polite.

>    In the long run, people should probably use "enriched text" in their =

>  email to get the nice paragraph refilling behavior. Enriched text is =

>  like LaTeX: one line-end makes a soft break, and two line-ends make a =

>  hard break. Smart recieving programs can then feel free to automatically =

>  refill paragraphs, and dumb receiving programs will still get something =

>  that looks okay (assuming the sending program formats to 72 or so =

>  characters per line).

>    I'll try and send this message as text/enriched, so people can see how =

>  it works....

>    Lex

>

>

>

>    Rick Zaccone wrote: > Well, my mail reader doesn't wrap incoming =

>  messages either. I think > it's best to send mail in a format that most =

>  likely to look good to > everyone. > > 1. Wrap outgoing text. > > 2. =

>  Don't use tabs. Unix expands them to 8 spaces, Mac and Windows to > 4 =

>  spaces. > > 3. Don't use accented characters. > > 4. Don't use HTML. > > =

>  etc. > > Rick > -- > zaccone at bucknell.edu=20

>