X-Message-Number: 17160
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:46:21 -0700
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: HTML

Please do NOT start sendng Cryonet in HTML!  I find it a comforting safe
haven of fast-loading text in a world where people seem to have gone mad
with graphics, fonts, colors, attachments, etc.  If I want to look at Web 
pages, I can follow links just by clicking on them in the email (I bless 
the day Netscape Messenger got smart enough to automatically make links out 
of anything starting with "http://" so I didn't have to cut and paste).

Pretty much everybody gets free Web space now, so even if you don't have
a ready-made page to link to, you can make one.  Netscape (and, I assume,
Internet Explorer) gives me the choice of whether to compose messges as
text or as HTML -- I choose text, because I find it easier to deal with.
Even when I write HTML, I do it as text, because I find that Netscape
Composer puts in a bunch of unnecessary cruft.

Rewriting addicts like me may want to see if they can find a PC version 
of one of my favorite Mac shareware utilities, Email Cleaner.  Or get a 
Mac :-) .

So stand fast, Kevin!  Don't open the Pandora's Box of HTML!  Keep it
simple!  Thus spake the programmer/tech writer/QA engineer.
-- 
May you live long and prosper,
Kennita
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