Re: applicability of Rich Text Format for e-mail

[Bill Janssen <janssen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excerpts from ext.ietf-822: 5-Jun-91 Re: applicability of Rich T..
Nathaniel Borenstein@thu (3012)

> Hugely.  This is one area where I think I can speak with real authority,
> based on our experience with the Andrew project.   Go to Carnegie Mellon
> or one of the few other sites where Andrew use is really widespread and
> you will find that multiple fonts, etc. in email are used all the time. 

Ah, but what for?  I enjoy the multiple fonts in ATK, but find that I do
*not* use bold, underline, Helvetica, and the like, but rather use
(almost exclusively) the styles "quotation", "example", and "code"
(which is a local style), along with embedded bitmaps.  The fact that
"quotation", for example, is displayed as italic indented text is less
important than the fact that it is a 'quotation'.

Bill