[TxMt] Mail language scope

[Allan Odgaard]

On 26. Oct 2006, at 07:23, Fred B wrote:

> [...]
> - Not everybody like html/rich text mails, some even have strong
> feelings against html in mails [...]

To emphasize, one of the reasons why it is disliked is that mailers  
generally send a giant style sheet with the message.

This means that the message appears unlike any other message in the  
inbox, which is bad when you have to quickly go through your new  
email, because having to read 30 messages in a row which are:

   * formatted exactly the same
   * has the first character of the first paragraph at the same location
   * use the same font (which you chose for optimal reading efficiency)
   * use the same visual style to markup quoted sections
   * are without visual distractions (company banners, etc.)

Is much more convenient than reading 30 messages where this is not  
the case, and it is often not with HTML, especially when generated on  
Windows, which tends to specify the font size in points, and that  
comes out to a much smaller font on the Mac (because of how they  
define the unit differently).

In addition to reading the email comes the lost flexibility when  
replying to it, as the HTML is often just one big black box, or the  
mailer will treat it that way.