On 15/03/11 12:51, David B Teague sr wrote: ....
I knew that Thunderbird's default is to send email in both text and HTML, but I was NOT aware that people still use email readers that can't display the text portion of email without the HTML part. I have not had any complaints from anyone about posting in HTML until now. I can be very annoying at times, so as I said, I make every effort to rectify the unnecessary things that annoy some.
It's not just "annoyance". html is /vastly/ bigger than the corresponding straight text file and chews up link bandwidth, mailer bandwidth and disk space (I've seen one-liner emails with megabytes of pretty "paper" attached, the originator being quite unaware of what they were doing). And because it's more complex to decipher, it's correspondingly less secure (so decent MUAs have yet another html render program to make sure they don't use the insecure system-provided one) and it's harder to detect and chuck spam. It just seems so unutterably pointless.
IMO of course. But this is rather OT for the list, I think :-) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
