Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus

[Xah]

Xah Lee wrote:
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HTML in email is a very good thing.
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Plain-Text Email Fetish
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/plain_text.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_e-mail
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On Aug 7, 8:17 am, Cor Gest <c...@clsnet.nl> wrote:
«That is utter CRAP, if you think that a message, dolled-up more than
a cathouse on X-mas'eve has more information than the same text in
ascii, you really ought to learn to read.»

well, HTML is technically superior simply because it can do a lot more
things.

In the mid 1990s, a lot tech geeker seriously think that the web
should remain in plain text or <pre>. They say exactly what you are
saying now. If you do research on newsgroup archive, i bet you can
still dig up lots of such arguments.

  Xah
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