>2) Attachments are not always necessary, give URL's or private
> e-mail addresses instead.
Text inclusions don't have to be "attachments" at all, better to include inline
as part of the message and avoid quoted-printable or base64 encoding. Even a
Web page is better when included straight as opposed to quoted-printable; then
it can be block-copied to a file whose name ends in .HTM and viewed with any
browser.
HTML versions of the message are a nuisance, wasteful of disk space, worse still
when encoded quoted-printable or base64, and still worse when the non-HTML and
HTML parts are both quoted-printable. Watch those settings in Outlook Express,
Netscape Messenger and other graphic email programs!
Excessive quoting is a widespread practice. Linux-ppp e-mailing list is heavily
affected. Every message has unsubscribe instructions at the end, and there is
no need to quote that part, but I have seen messages that included the
unsubscribe instructions four times due to successive overquoting. Newsgroups
alt.support.asthma and alt.folklore.herbs also have a lot of excessive quoting.
Thomas Mueller
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