From: "ARM-Viper ." <armageddonclan@hotmail.com>
To: ml@qoole.com
Reply-To: ml@qoole.com
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:36:03 PST
Subject: Re: Texture size (invisible email)

>That's true, but there is really no reason to use HTML is an e-mail
>message.  Sure, it looks pretty, and you can include hypertext links, 
but
>you can enclose those same links in plain text, just cut and paste to
>browser...some programs will even do it for you automatically.  It's 
better
>to have an ugly message that everyone can ready than a shiny polished
>message that has crap all over it for people will e-mail clients that 
don't
>support HTML.

This I will not deny.

>>Saying that people who use HTML e-mail have nothing to say is 
>>rather...prejudiced, I'd say.
>
>I agree.

So we're coming together a bit...

>>Anyway, be creative!  That's what this list is for, especially with 
>>regards to Quake/Quake2 level design.  Just because a tool is 
so-called 
>>"appropriate" doesn't mean it happens to be the best way of doing 
>>things.  Can anyone say Windows95?
>
>Anyone who calls Windows 95 appropriate is retarded, so this is a bad
>analogy.  However using ASCII only in e-mail messages is a good idea.
>Unlike Windows 95.  There is no need I can see for using HTML, unless 
it is
>to make a message pretty.  To that I say: who cares?

Well...I think you misunderstood what I meant by "appropriate."  I meant 
"appropriate" in the sense that it is a, if not _the_ standard tool for 
the job of personal computing.  I hardly meant that Win95 was the best 
choice, the most powerful choice, or anything along those lines.

As you may have noticed, I don't (normally) write e-mail in HTML, so 
shots to the intelligence of those who do fall by the wayside when 
brought against me.  However, I don't mind _receiving_ this format of 
e-mail.  The only e-mail problem I've yet to solve is those messages 
where I get raw code (not HTML).  That's a pain to read, and I don't 
even know what it is to complain about it :)

ARM-Viper

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