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Jeff Seeger <[log in to unmask]>
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        Roland,

        I must line up with Brian on this one. HTML mail is like
        sending a postcard in a giant box with lots of packing
        material.

        Sure colors make fine emphasis, and I'm glad to hear of
        the high standard of living in your area that makes DSL
        or other high speed technologies universal.

        But the size versus benefit that Brian points out is not
        easily disputable.

        My own pet peeve with HTML is as Brian also alludes to,
        the display optimization becomes embedded by the sender
        and cannot readily be overcome by the recipient.  As an
        example, since my display is primarily for CAD, it's big
        and high resolution.  Your mails, and others like them,
        may be fine on your tube.  But on mine the text displays
        as a tiny line of dots - to read it I must cut and paste
        the content into another window where I can control the
        font size.  Plain old ascii text is the email medium of
        choice for a number of reasons.

        I respectfully submit that you should investigate using
        the colors and fonts on your browser to make the ascii
        mail less of a strain - however you may find the html
        based posts you receive don't behave for you. As for the
        need to allude to the nature of fossils like me, I will
        also respectfully ask you to put a sock in it.

        (obligatory smilie here -   ;)

        Cheers,
--

      Jeff Seeger                         Applied CAD Knowledge Inc
      Chief Technical Officer                  Tyngsboro, MA  01879
      jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com                978 649 9800

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