On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 13:43 +0200, Erik Slagter wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 00:01 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote: > > > - rant on - > > html email is only evil 5-7 years ago. Or, today for systems and users > > that measure storage and processor time, or bandwidth, in terms that > > were prevalent 5-7 years ago. > > > > Today ... html email is required. It is still de-riguer on lists, etc > > ... and I am used to it being "more polite". But html email is here to > > stay, as is using the email system as "knowledge management" not just > > sending/receiving small text messages. > > - rant off - > > You surely must be joking. The argument of more space/bandwidth has > never been valid.
You've never used a 28.8kbps modem to fetch email, have you? There was a time when uucp-at-9600bps was how much email was transmitted. HTML mail would have been a disaster. Even now, high-volume lists like lkml would double or treble the needed bandwidth and disk space needed if everyone used html. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate." Charles De Gaulle _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
