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On Sunday 17 November 2002 08:55 am, Bill Horne wrote: > The biggest problem with text-formatted emails is that you can't predict > what font the recipient will use to read them. Since it's common for both > OE and Messenger to use Proportional fonts for text emails, the work of > lining things up is often lost at the receiving end. HTML, although a > bandwidth hog and inappropriate for posts to a reflector, is nonetheless > useful for assuring that a message is seen as the sender intended, and I > use it for all my email r?sum? submissions. > > HTH. YMMV. My M does V quite a bit from this. As others have said, different email readers, even ones that support HTML, are going to render the message in different ways. And email programs that don't process the HTML tags will produce and almost unreadable mess. For a long time, I used pine for all my email. It tries to render HTML, but it's text mode, so it can only do so much. I would often turn it off and read the source, since I can parse the HTML in my head. Now I use KMail (park of KDE). While it renders HTML messages, sometimes things clearly don't come out as the author intended. For instance, sometimes the text looks like it's about 8 point, because the MUA used to send it chose some wierd font I don't have. I've seen the same things happen in Outlook though. The other point about the mail scanners not being able to process them as well is important, too. Even cutting and pasting from HTML emails in your MUA can produce strange results. The correct way to handle this problem with something as important as a cover letter is to simply write your email in a format that does not depend on things lining up, and use spaces instead of tabs. That is why I transformed the "T" style cover letter to a two-level bullet list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer david at thekramers.net http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D "I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on DK KD top shows a lack of confidence." DDDD - Doug McLeod
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