OT: HTML Emails -- Re: Other than frys where would you get server hardware

[Robert Holtzman]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I don't know but I did change to using plain text for some time because
>> of
>>> the desires of certain people here.  The loss of functionality was
>>> bothersome so I finally switched back to the rich text mode of gmail.
>>
>> Excuse my ignorance but what functionality does HTML give you?
>>
> Multiple fonts, colors, highlighting, underlining, bold text, indenting,
> insert as quote, graphic leements, need I go on?  While HTML may not be the
> only way to accomplish some of those things, it is extremely common.

How does any of this add to the information content of the email?

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Bob Holtzman
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