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How to make sure Mail sends font info with messages
Authored by: Mac Berry on Dec 03, '08 01:21:04AM

No, the message is the senders message, which he is entitled to format as he sees fit, just as he would with a letter. It's up to you to set your client to help you out with your poor eyesight or unusual screen resolution, not him (if he's got any sense, he'll have used a format that's reasonable at most commonly used resolutions, and if he hasn't, I for one want to know that I'm dealing with someone that stupid). That's the benefit of this technology over paper; the fact that you can choose how to recieve stuff.

If a sender is stupid enough to use a font/size that's going to make him look stupid or inconsiderate, then I'd like to have that piece of information to help me judge the value of the message. If I then still want to read the message, I always have the option of re-formating it to suit me.

So basically I agree with you that sending a message in a stupid font is bad. But if someone is that bad at communicating, I want to know, so would encourage people to select "good formatting", not "no formatting".



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