Sociology and Message formatting

At 03:12 PM 1/7/99 -0500, Stephen Dauphin wrote: Stephen's message got me thinking that we were talking about two very different things. As anyone on this list can tell, I've never sent anything but plain e-mail this list and won't until the list changes. Imagine you go to a party, everyone is speaking English but you find two or three friends you know who speak French. You could stand there and talking and joking in French while the people around you got annoyed, or you could speak English like everyone else and be polite. I try to be polite. My comments on this topic however would be akin to saying, "You know, more and more people can speak French fluently theses days, I wouldn't be suprised if the language spoken at these parties will just be French in a couple of years." More and more people can both receive HTML and send it these days. Soon there will be new mailing lists where MOST people send HTML and occasionally some people send plain text. I don't advocate it for this list, nor do I mean to offend people who are afraid of this trend. I only observe it and report. Respectfully, --Chuck McManis