RE: [Asrg] Introduction and another idea

At 12:06 PM -0600 6/20/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
>That's wrong.  If you as a mail receiver like variable pitch fonts,
>then you can have them with common MUAs with plaintext mail simply by
>configuring your MUA.  If you don't like variable pitch fonts, then

Which works fine until you get email from someone who assumed you 
were using fixed pitch.  I've tried it, it's not worth the hassle. 
Lots of plain/text messages don't assume fixed pitch, but when they 
do, they *really* do.

>Do you think much HTML mail specifies a font by other than <BIG>
>or a numeric size?   My impression is otherwise.

Absolutely, all the time.  In fact, in the code I just wrote to look 
for hand-generated HTML, I specifically count font tags as hand 
generated only if the face or the size changes from what was used in 
the previous font tag.  If I just looked to a face tag, just about 
everything from Outlook would get marked as hand-generated.  Even my 
pre-teen daughters send multi-font email.  Don't look at me.  *I* 
didn't tell them how.  In fact, in one of my older daughter's first 
messages to a friend, she figured out how to cut and paste the smiley 
graphics from iChat into the mail program, and mailed off a message 
containing 200 itsy bitsy TIF images of different smiley faces. 
(Bummer drag--first message to someone, and it was HTML.)
-- 
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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