Is HTML bad for emails?

(I received this from my daughter and I send all my emails in HTML...can anyone tell me if there is any walidity in this?)

I've noticed an increase in the number of messages sent to the listserv in html or rich text format. Many people are not aware that they are sending messages in html.

Besides the appearance issues html create in the Digests, there are a number of other reasons for sending messages in Plain Text rather than
html. I recommend the following article by Thomas Gramstad -

ARTICLE

Here's the opening statement:

"Unfortunately, today some of the common e-mail clients are provided to the customer with a "rich text" setting (also known as "styled" or
"stylized text", or "formatted text") turned on - instead of providing the user with a Plain Text setting and leaving it to the user to turn on
a styled text feature if they want it, as an active and informed choice by the user.

As a result, many users have no idea that this feature is turned on in their e-mail client, and no understanding of what this does with their outgoing mail, and the problems that this feature may cause.

It's important to understand that when this text formatting is turned on, this means that the text one writes in an e-mail message is embedded
in HTML code. The HTML code is what provides the formatting (or "stylization", such as fancy font types, colored text etc.) of the text in the E-mail message, in pretty much the same way that HTML code provides the layout of the text on a web page.

Unfortunately, while HTML code works well (usually) on a web page when viewed with a web browser, it works really poor in E-mail, causing many problems.

Therefore it's generally a bad idea to use HTML code in E-mail."

Blessings,
Sue

 

Diane: I, too, have a few people who have Juno and I have checked that they are not to receive html.

Don: I have run across some servers who cannot receive html, but as you say, they strip it themselves. If someone replies to me that they cannot see the pictures, hear the music etc., I take them off of the html list. So I guess I'm doing okay.

Thanks for the input,
Sue