Good old Mike, still jumping on every train that has the words 'NEW' on it,
no matter which direction it heads.
HTML postings allow me to
- determine whether you have read a message by me or not, including
information about your browser and operating system,
- execute malign JavaScript code on your machine and exploit documented
bugs in the language which have not yet been fixed in all its
implementations, and especially the mailing programs are a bit slow in
reacting to such issues,
- give mails which would have no content otherwise a cool look to make
them more important. The CAPS LOCK key for the lamers, so to speak.
I dunno whether M$ supports ActiveX in messages, but if they do, that's
another point.
Who needs more than 7-bit to exchange content? The only drawback is German
umlauts and other special characters, which I would have executed once and
for all about 20 years ago anyway. Unicode may offer some new possibilities
here, but HTML for a mailing list is really unnecessary. Did it ever occur
to you that there might still be some people using PINE or stuff like that?
Erik Moeller