[sdiy] HTML. was: Filters

[Scott Bernardi]

Actually, that's more like XML - you can define your own tags..
<show anatomy="teeth">grin</show>

Dave Krooshof wrote:

> >Also, please turn off the HTML feature on your email program
> >when you email the SDIY list.  HTML is unnecessary and just
> >makes the message 'fatter' without adding any real value.
>
> >I'm probably posting in HTML right here, I just can't see it..To the best
> >of my knowledge there is now no way to turn off HTML in the AOL client (go
> >AOL...they suck more every day) and I've looked high and low, so if
> >anybody's wondering why us AOL users are posting HTML, it's because we
> >can't do anything about it.
> >
> >-Chris
>
> Someone posted the notator-link in his email (thanks!) and while
> clicking about through their netiquette*,  I found a very useful
> site about turning off the HTML in email.
> http://www.notator.org/html/netiquette.html#email_settings
> it covers M$'s dangerous Outlook shit, as well as 'how to live
> with a America Off Line software' (my words)
>
> HTML does not belong in email, and for safety you want scripting
> to be turned off too.
>
> BTW:
> We do use fake HTML from time to time, mostly to flag humour,
> <cartman immitates "Aliens"> mostly </cartman>
>
> > ^ v <
>
> * that post was about sdiy not having a digest. I posted that
> suggestion once, and I got convinced that not having a digest
> contributes a lot to the health of this list, to the point that I
> will happily defend the 'no digest' opinion.

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Scott Bernardi
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