On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:29:57 -1000 Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> It may be "mainstream" but it really isn't as easy to use or as > universally readable as plain text. > > There are other forums to meet this "need", such as > stackoverflow.com. It's also a storage hog using several times the space a simple ASCII or UTF-8 message does. HTML email also offers a convenient way to slip worms and trojans on systems. Also, since there are various "dialects" of HTML, documents in one dialect may not display the same one someone else's system as they did on the author's. Generally, HTML is a bad idea for email. JWD ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
