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[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to say that a long established Usenet tradition is that 
mail that is hard to read (in the mind of the reader, not the writer) is 
far less likely to get a helpful reply.

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:29:59PM -0800, Nicholas P. Bernstein wrote:
> I hate to be a bother, and I don't want to direct this at anyone
> specifically, but I've noticed a lot of emails in HTML. If I am the only one
> who is bothered by this, then I will retract this objection and we can go on
> happily. However - and I know many may think this dated - I personally find
> html emails bothersome. To me, they are large, unnecessary, and do not work
> on all mail-clients. Also, it is tradition not to use html on internet
> mailing lists & usenet and is considered bad form by many.
> 
> Thanks for listening to me gripe,

HTML mail gets deleted instantly.

Mail that is hard to read because the

. lines are too long

. paragraphs are too long

is unlikely to get replied to.

> Nick
> 

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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