From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <877iav5s49.fsf@163.com> <86hc9yc5sj.fsf@timbral.net> <877iat7udd.fsf@163.com> <87fxphcsxi.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <8504ddd4-5e3b-4ed5-bf77-aa9cce81b59a@1g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <87k5esq2g2.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218131114 3816 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 17:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:45:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 19:46:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KR9YF-0005ae-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:45:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41381 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KR9XK-0005j8-Ca for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:44:30 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!1g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218127823 16065 127.0.0.1 (7 Aug 2008 16:50:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:50:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 1g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160904 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56251 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: =C2=AB HTML in email is a very good thing. =2E.. Plain-Text Email Fetish http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/plain_text.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_e-mail =C2=BB On Aug 7, 8:17 am, Cor Gest wrote: =C2=ABThat is utter CRAP, if you think that a message, dolled-up more than a cathouse on X-mas'eve has more information than the same text in ascii, you really ought to learn to read.=C2=BB well, HTML is technically superior simply because it can do a lot more things. In the mid 1990s, a lot tech geeker seriously think that the web should remain in plain text or 
. They say exactly what you are
saying now. If you do research on newsgroup archive, i bet you can
still dig up lots of such arguments.

  Xah
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