> >What keeps people interested in and using the Internet is e-mail. E-mail
> >mimics letter writing. It is plain text. There is no need for inline
> >images, different sized fonts and font attributes like bold, etc. Sure, in
> >a letter you can press harder on the pen/pencil, you can even switch to
> >colored pens/pencils, the point is that people don't do this in normal
> >letter writing. On the rare occasion when we need to, we do have the all
> >caps, etc.
>
> I don't know where you've been, but here in the computer world we write our
> letters in a word processor.
>
> A word processor won't sell worth a flip unless it supports bold, italics,
> underlining, etc.
>
> True, most people don't use computers; but I submit that the people who
> aren't using computers don't figure into the capabilities of email.
>
> >e-mail when they feel the need to. They do it by typing the <bold> tags
> ></bold> directly into the e-mail and letting the <italic>person
> ><</italic>figure it out.
>
> And you don't think it's less distracting if the program interprets those,
> showing the text in bold or italic instead of leaving the tags in there?
>
> That's what we're talking about, here; those tags you're mentioning are HTML
> tags.
If those were the only tags that would be great; bold, underline, italic.
The rest of the tags make extremely annoying messages. Also, it's funny
that HTML proponents never address the addtional size of HTML mail.
GT
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