On 2025-04-17 at 09:52, Alain D D Williams wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:55:31PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> 
>> Long ago he was a senior manager in a major IT manufacturer known
>> for its color. I've known him for many years.  I don't fancy the
>> job of telling him how stupid he is.  IT also involves human
>> problems.
> 
> In that case just tell him that you have tried and cannot work out
> how to do it. He will think that you are stupid but if/when he tries
> to tell you how to do it and realises that it is not that simple, a
> penny might drop.

I'm sure he'll declare that it *is* that simple: just compose the mail
in HTML, and set the composer to specify a blue font color.

The fact that this won't work for all recipient mail clients won't
matter to him, since it *will* work for *his* mail client.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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