On 4/8/19 3:32 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 08.04.19 05:04, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 08 April 2019 02:36:49 Erik Christiansen wrote:
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And that requires html encoding, also high discouraged on most lists. And
usually skipped by this reader.
Nooo-oooo, that'd be true if it were done on a sent message, but it's
only a display option I use on received messages. I'm as averse as you
to html, read only the plain text portion of a multipart post, and any
html-only post is auto-converted to plain text - then the unquoted text
is given another colour in the xterm, by mutt¹. Plain text does not
irremediably confine us to a monochrome display. (OK, it may be a bit
"fawncy" for some tastes, but makes for quicker discernment of what's
the reply, and a second saved can be spent on lunch.)
Erik
¹ It's just a regex detecting /^> /, then flipping those lines to the
chosen colour. No html at all, even on the receive side.
Thunderbird does this so nicely.
Since top quoting folks do not trim emails, messages start to grow like
rabbits. Ratio of noise/message size was about 80% in most mails at
work. Besides font descriptions there are pixels of gifys and other
nonsense that take more space than messages in many cases. This started
with windows PCs connected to the internet.
Since emails are kept for long time to search back for messages, they
occupy space on disks, mechanical or SSDs. Each one uses a lot of energy
eventually. I don't know how much of this stuff is "out there" but it's
likely in megawatts of energy shuffling emails back and forth.
Conclusion, top posting without trimming is contributing to global
warming more than normal style.
So there,
--
Rafael
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