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Message: [QUOTE="Richard Heathfield, post: 1687163"] It's interesting that you should say that. It is quite rare for me to send emails except in reply to those who send them to me (some would say that even the replies are pretty rare right now, but you can blame that on spam). My correspondents tend to be either people asking for help (I wish they would use the newsgroups, and I urge them to use the newsgroups, but sometimes they /don't/ use the newsgroups), or people I know already. The people I know use ordinary plain text email. The rest - the people asking for help - are a mixture; some HTML, some text. I read my email in vi (well, all right, vim). If I *can't* read an email because the tags stop me from doing so effectively, I have a very simple solution - I just delete the email (assuming the spam filter didn't do it for me). What I /don't/ do is send a reply asking the person to fix their email account. If they want to send HTML email, that's entirely up to them. And if I choose not to read it, that's entirely up to me. I don't bother complaining because, compared to the volume of spam I get, HTML email is a minor annoyance. Same applies in Usenet. The HTML postings tend to come from those asking for help. The plain text replies are coming from those giving it. If by choosing to post in HTML format those who seek help make life harder for those who give it, then those who give it will be less willing to give it. Because it isn't as inevitable as it was supposed to be? :-) Death Of Usenet Imminent! Film at 11! Quite. [/QUOTE]

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