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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.org>]

Thanks for your answers regarding plain text messages guys :-)

Peter

On 12/10/11 20:06, Hanselka, Alex wrote:
> Also, many people here use text based mail clients (such as mutt!)
> which are a pain with HTML.
>
> As for the search sites, I believe Jeff is having some issues with his
> servers and I am sure they are being fixed ASAP :)
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:57 PM, mike<mike AT pikeaero.com>  wrote:
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> > On 11-10-12 01:17 PM, Peter Green wrote:
> > > I'm getting the same (in the U.K.)
> > >
> > > (My last message I got returned, sorry if you got it twice.
> > > Would someone tell me why the geeky mailing lists have an aversion to html 
> > > messages please?)
> > Peter,
> >
> > There are probably many reasons that people can come up with, but one is
> > the ability to spoof/hide urls in the html tags and images, making an
> > URL or image appear as one place, but sending you somewhere else.
> >
> > Then many people find the embedded images, multi-color flashing things,
> > and gigantic multi-color fonts, as well as microscopic fonts to be annoying.
> >
> > And on and on...I think everybody has their own version of the most
> > annoying embedded html.
> >
> > - --Mike
> >
> > > Peter Green
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