I didn't mean to start a religious war; I guess I should have known better. It looks as though we will have to agree to disagree on the appropriateness of HTML in email.
A solution that will work is this: Javaranch continues to send HTML to those people who want it, and I continue to choose not to receive it. That way, we both get what we want.
Here is a
commentary (not mine) on HTML mail. The author's experience with the signal-to-noise ratio mirrors mine (i.e. far more than 10% increase in size).
From the UBB manual,
how to configure UBB email options to choose between HTML and plain text mail. However, it appears that this applies to everyone. Maybe I'll make a feature request to the UBB folks for UBB 7.x for per-member setting of this flag...
[ February 21, 2002: Message edited by: Susan Hoover ]