Why is The Desk Drawer a text-only list?
The Desk Drawer is a text-only list for several reasons. First, the listowner’s email program cannot read HTML mail. 🙂 Second, email messages take up much less space as text only. Those fancy backgrounds to your message and cute pictures in your signature lines make getting email for those of us on a dial-up connection even slower. And third, some places on the Web where we want to publish our work are text-only. The Desk Drawer is a good place to work out text-only kinks before submitting your work to such a place. As a bonus, being text-only weeds out any harmful code or attachments, so the risk of getting a virus is minimized.
