My email could do all that, if I allowed it to. I refuse to accept email in HTML format. Doesn't even have to be HTML (with its security vulnerabilities);I suspect it's people using RTF that pock-marks so many messages with godawful blobs where a simple apostrophe belongs. If nothing else, I would not want to cause Pat Logan frustration and grief. She is one of WBAI's most dedicated, perceptive and thoughtful Independents. Her perceptive talents do not include an appreciation of text demarcated by colors, bold-face, etc., etc.: she's blind. I think it takes a lazy barely-literate mind to depend on HTML to convey a thought. If your message is pointless without bullet points, it remains pointless when bullet points are used. --Frank LeFever --- In NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Kevin White <cuitlacoche1@...> wrote: > > I like italics. I like bold. I like to underline. I like to use colors. I like to change fonts. I like to make hyperlinks. I like to use bullet points. > > Now a days you have to be a real luddite (and spend a lot of time) to find an email client that can't do these things. > > K > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Pamela Somers <psomers1@...> > To: NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 12:39:52 PM > Subject: PLAIN TEXT, PLEASE -- ELSE IS GIBBERISH: Re: [NewPacifica] The Decline and Fall of America > > In all fairness, there is still a school of thought that believes > html should not be used in email, and that lists like these > should only allow un-marked-up text. But html isn't going away. I > can only suggest that people with email clients that don't handle > html markup should read the list on the web site. > > Pamela > > --- In NewPacifica@ yahoogroups. com, Kevin White <cuitlacoche1@ ...> > wrote: > > > > Couldn't David Combs get a modern email client. They've had some > good ones going back to say... 1998. > > > > HTML isn't exactly a cutting edge technology. > > > > K > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Robert Knight <theknightreport@ ...> > > To: NewPacifica@ yahoogroups. com > > Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 8:07:06 AM > > Subject: Re: PLAIN TEXT, PLEASE -- ELSE IS GIBBERISH: Re: > [NewPacifica] The Decline and Fall of America > > > > No comment. > > > > -RK > > > > > > On 5/1/08, David Combs <dkcombs@panix. com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:35:28AM -0700, Emmett Abati Doe wrote: > > > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3. > org/TR/html4/ strict.dtd"> > > > <html> > > > <head> > > > </head> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <body style="background- color: #ffffff;"> > > > > > > <!--~-|**|PrettyHtm l StartT|** |-~--> > > > <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width: 655px; position:relative; "> > > > <div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin:0; padding:0 25px > 0 0; float:left; z-index:1;"> > > > <!--~-|**|PrettyHtm l EndT|**|- ~--> > > > > > > <div id="ygrp-text" > > > > <p><table cellspacing= "0" cellpadding= "0" border="0">< tr><td > style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv1497453268" >HI > FRED/ALL,<br> <br>"The Decline and Fall of America" IS A MISS-LEADING > TITLE AND RE-ENFORCES/ <wbr>PROMOTES THE ILLUSION'S RE: "FALL OF THE > ROMAN EMPIRE ", (YET YOU CAN CALL THE VATICAN AND FRIENDS IN > ROME); "THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH" (YET THE NUMBER ONE > NAZI LIVES IN "THE WHITE HOUSE"); "THE FALL/COLLAPSE OF SOVIET > RUSSIA",(YET THEY STILL HAVE AN ARMY WITH N-BOMBS AND YOU CAN > CALL "THE KREMLIN"); THE "END OF COLONIZATION, THE BRITISH EMPIRE", > (YET ENGLAND CONTROLS THE USA, AS THE RECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA IS IN > FULL FORCE); AND THE JEWISH HOMELAND IS EAST AFRICA IN THE SO- > CALL "MIDDLE EAST", ....) AND SO-ON, AND SO-ON.<br><br> NO, WHAT > WAS/IS HAPPENING ARE VERY CONTROLLED TRANSITIONS, AS "THE LEARNED > ELDERS OF ZION (POZ)" LAUGH, OR SMIRK, AS THEY MAINTAIN OVER 3000 > YEAR'S OF WAR FARE AGAINST "THE GONEIN"!<br> <br>FYI: I HAVE BEEN > > > BAND/BLOCKED FROM POSTING ON ALL PACIFICA GROUPS WITH-OUT NOTICE. > <br><br>SO MUCH FOR "FREE SPEECH" ANOTHER GRAND (PACIFICA) ILLUSION! > <br><br>made in america,<br> <br><br><br> --- On > <b>Wed, 4/23/08, siddharta2@aol. <wbr>com <i><siddharta2@ > aol.<wbr>com& gt;</i></ b> wrote:<br><blockquo te style="border- left: > 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);">From: siddharta2@aol. <wbr>com > <siddharta2@ aol.<wbr>com& gt;<br>Subject: [NewPacifica] The > Decline and Fall of America<br>To: > newpacifica@ <wbr>yahoogroups .<wbr>com< br>Date: Wednesday, April 23, > 2008, 2:25 PM<br><br><div id="yiv792350113" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <div id="ygrp-text" > > > > <p><br> > > > <br> > > > > > > > > > </p><div id="AOLMsgPart_ 0_ 9d3abc9d- ed2d-4a09- 9f46-f7e1088420a > 9"> > > > > > > <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" > > > ... > > ... > > > > Hey, guys, this is EMAIL, not a web-page. > > > > PLEASE put up this info in straight-text, not > > this html-stuff. > > > > At least for some of us, it's TOTALLY GIBBERISH, unreadable. > > > > If you feel that what you sent out to this list is IMPORTANT, > > please RE-send it, but in straight text, so we can "get" > > what it is you're saying. > > > > THANKS! > > > > David Combs =========================================================