No one's stopping you from sending your sister large mails with bas64
encoded images and other things. She's not on the list. However, it's
wrong to send attachments and HTML encoded mail to most mailing lists.
For my part, I find that 99% of HTML messages are just spam. So on the
technical side, I configure any clients that could render HTML to not
render HTML. So all the primitive formatting that HTML is capable
of is lost.
Non-text messages just cause problems AND they increase the message size.
Some on this list (often me) pay by the byte, either through connection
fees or by traffic fees. Most messages are only a paragraph or two of
content anyway. If you can't say it in plain text then it may be time to
reconsider sending it.
C'mon it's 2005 already. Best practices have been worked out.
Now how do we get back on topic?
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog ...
... until you start barking.
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Randomthots wrote:
Out of consideration for all the poor slobs living in technologically
underdeveloped countries I won't quote Marco's post but merely respond to it.
What *I* get annoyed at is the attitude that just because some people in the
world pay for Internet by the byte, that it's somehow wrong in principle to
*ever* use technology like html e-mail. What if I want to send a nicely
formatted message -- complete with pictures of the kids -- to my sister in
Washington? We both have fast, all-you-can-eat access, decent computers, and
up-to-date technology.
Why can't someone post a message to this list asking how to do something like
that without getting a bunch of messages telling them that it's morally
wrong? That and the penguinistas with their noses in the air about how e-mail
is a textual medium by definition and html-mail is therefore an abomination.
When I post to a list like this I know I'm speaking to an international
audience using a wide variety of clients on a wide variety of operating
systems. Therefore I will post in plain-text as that is the lowest common
denominator medium. But why should I be limited to that for ALL my
communications?
Why can't people just answer the OP's question and leave the friggin'
politics aside???
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