Re: PLEASE USE PLAIN TEXT, WAS Productive Forces

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Nilsson wrote:
>
> Carrol wrote
>
> > I don't know who started using html formatting on
> > this thread but it is obnoxious.
>
> Was blue text what you are referring to? If so, it was me: I mistakenly sent
> out such a message.
>
> But, for what it is worth, colored text is not always the same as HTML. My
> blue text was courtesy of the MIME e-mail format--which I use. MIME is
> capable of colored text (and other things too)! But I bet you don't want to
> see these things....
>
>

No I don't. :-)

I tend to use "html" to label anything other than plain text. I have
never investigated the mysteries of digital practices enough to learn
exactly what MIME is or how it operates.

Some of these posts simply won't fwd other than as an attachment, so I
can't use my usual tactic of fwd a text to read it. This time I pasted a
couple of the posts into a word document and reformatted them there.

Incidentally, html and mime also use far more bytes than does plain
text, which on lists where someone is paying for archival space ups the
cost considerably.

Carrol