On May 26, 2007, at 4:07 AM, William Bain wrote:
All,
I wanted to comment on two or three things that have come out of this thread. First, on typography and using special effects on th listserve, this occurred to me, too, the othr day, as I observed a friend using different colors and fonts to send an e-mail. I'm trying it here, tho I suppose (hasty supposition?) that this will just come out on screen as regular black typeface. My question, however, is whether or not this list (with aoir permision) would be interested in using such special faces.
no. html email is an act that shows a certain lack of consideration for the audiences of the list. if you want to do html fonts and colors, make a webpage and send us a url. the problem with html email is that it excludes those who do not use clients that support it, it is a medium for malware, and in the end, it is email bloat. other points about html email can be found at: http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.geocities.com/thduggie/ascii/asciitxt.txt jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series