[Tutor] Please use plain text.

[Todd Zullinger]

bob gailer wrote:
> Thanks for the request for clarification. By plain text I mean:
>
> one font and one size that is "readable". Most of the emails I
> receive appear the same in font and size, so whatever that is I
> like.

What's readable to you may not be readable to the next person though.
Most likely is that many of the posters here are not sending HTML
formatted mail, and thus their messages don't contain any font or size
information.  That's left up to your mail client and it will use
whatever defaults you have chosen.

> Use of very small or very large font sizes or various fonts / colors
> makes it hard for me to read.
>
> As I compose this in Thunderbird I see Body Text and Variable Width.
> But I do appreciate code in Fixed Width.

I believe the best answer to this issue is to not send HTML formatted
mail at all.  A truly plain text email contains no markup telling
anyone's email client what fonts to use.  That is something that
rightly belongs to each user, IMO.  Most of the mailing lists I
subscribe to frown upon HTML mail.

I don't worry about it a lot though, as I use a console based email
tool and any HTML messages that are sent are simply dumped as text for
me to read.  (I know many others that direct all HTML mail to
/dev/null.)

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