Oh no! It's another rant from Kynn.
At 01:48 p.m. 04/01/98 -0500, David Strauss wrote:
>And cut the holier than thou crap. The real world is that Windows is about
>90% of the computer users on the entire planet. Several hundred million
>installed users. Those who stick their head in the sand and complain that
>everyone should use elm because plain text is what they used in the good ol'
>days of (fill in the blank) is missing the point.
I use Windows 95, Eudora Pro, Netscape Communicator for my email
reading. Yet I'm very much against the idea of HTML email.
Where, exactly, are you getting this strawman argument from, which
says that the only people who object to HTML email are the un-
enlightened, anti-HTML, Windows-hating, UNIX-loving, stick-in-the-
muds who are against progress?
I love HTML. I use it every day in my job as Claremont Graduate
University's webmaster, and I'm on the Board of the HTML Writers
Guild. I install the latest playtoys on my work computer, and I
groove to Opera. I'm not a luddite, nor do I insist that everyone
needs to use to elm to read their email.
But -- I still think that HTML in email is a bad idea, and serves
to exclude some of the people who could benefit most from email
services. I think it's shoddily implemented, and created by people
who spew arguments about "falling behind" and "standing in the
way of progress" as an excuse to trample over everyone else and
put them down.
HTML via the web is an open standard, usable by everyone with a
browser to access information. HTML via email, however, isn't
such at all, especially since email was created long before HTML
ever came along. Those who think that HTML-capable email clients
are available to the vast majority of email users have their heads
too far in some technohaven alternate reality, and really should
come back down to earth for a while.
FWIW, I agree with the proposal that Majordomo 2 should allow
by-list and by-user HTML stripping -- and I wish I had the time
and expertise to implement it myself. Unfortunately I don't, so
my next best alternative is to do what current Majordomo code
allows -- forbid HTML postings on my lists.
End of rant.
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