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Ken--

I appreciate the additional information. I wasn't as alert to HTML carrying
viruses. I understand the bandwidth situation, and that in the US there are
many pockets in many states where there isn't always a broadband option
available--and unfortunately when there is there is not yet a choice of
multiple broadband carriers which means price points are way to high and
mickey mouse excuses are given as to why Cable providers can't provide
ala-cart services so you aren't stuffed with 50 TV stations for 50 bucks a
month that you'd never watch in order to get HBO of something else you want.

Even when I take the check out of the send tab to reply to messages in
format sent, I still get the OE html formatting bar (which is what MSFT
officially calls it and I was trying to convey to Kelly is a native part of
MSFT OE/IE/XP. I have a couple chapters on OE in the last IE book MSFT
Press put out and they talk about the options of the Plain Text Settings
dialogue box but they don't really explain how to use the options or what
they mean (not the first and last time for that)--Encode text using--Allow 8
bit messages for headers--Indentation Character--Automatic Text Wrapping
other than to say it should be a few characters less than 80.

"Go nuts" is too strong a word but people are going to jump up and down if
you use HTML that much I'm certain. Even with the checks in the proper
place on the send tab this reply box defaulted to HTML or rich text, but it
is easy enough to change it.

Best,

Chad Harris


"Ken Blake" wrote in message
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In ,
Chad Harris typed:

I fail to see why people go nuts when you post in html if it's
for a
good reason. I think html makes it a lot easier to read if you
use
italics, underline or bold correctly. Does it create that much
of a
bandwidth problem?


"Going nuts' is perhaps too strong a reaction, but be aware that
there are several significant problems with html:

1. Html messages can carry viruses.

2. Html messages are bigger than text messages, often very much
bigger. That may not be a problem for you if, for example, you're
in the USA and have a fast connection. But realize that many
people use dial-up, either because that's all that's available to
them where they are, or because they can't afford anything
faster. Also in many other parts of the world, people pay for
their internet usage by the minute, and anything that increases
the size of messages is a great imposition to them.

3. Everyone's idea of what constitutes an attractive or improved
html message is different. You may think your html messages are
beautiful, but someone else might find them unreadable. I once
had a correspondent who would send me E-mail messages with red
text on a black background. I could barely make them out.

He finally stopped and switched to text when I threatened to
killfile him if he didn't. ;-)

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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