On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:
I think the animosity toward HTMLized email (at least
for me)
comes from these points:
1) It's just not necessary for effective communications.
2) It's a waste of bandwidth and system resources.
3) Technical people generally want genuine functionality to
prevail over "flash"...which is why many (most) technical people
in the industry (Visual Basic programmers don't count) don't
have Windows boxes on their desks if they have anything to say
about it.
4) It's a clear outgrowth of the overcommercialization of the Internet,
in which uneducated users think the World Wide Web *IS* the
Internet, thus they try to cram the World Wide Web into
everything they do, and conversely, cram everything they do into
the World Wide Web.
5. It can spread viruses. Plain old ASCII e-mail doesn't do that (hoaxes
like "Join The Crew" notwithstanding...)