On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: > HTML is a Web format, not an e-mail format. And unlike PDF, HTML does > not guarantee any particular presentation at the receiving end, since > the receiving software must interpret the HTML. HTML gives > suggestions, not absolute rules as PDF does, which means that HTML may > look nothing like the author intended. I fully agree. And for those of us who prefer to use text-based e-mail clients (I use pine), HTML-only e-mails are close to un-readable. Fortunately, many clients include the alternative text version, but not all. Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Academic Research and Technology Initiatives, Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf