On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 09:44 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 09:20 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > Now, some have also asked me why I send mail in plain text.
> > And.....why do I? HTML email is a "standard" (its got a RFC and
> > everything), so why not send in HTML? Silly formatting and colour
> > coding aside.
>
> Because:
>
Sorry all this is getting OT, my last response, promise.
> 1. Plain text is also a standard
Yes, and
> 2. You almost never need the silly formatting and colour coding
Unless when it is required - like pointing out reply chunks etc
> 3. Everyone's ideas of appropriate formatting (e.g. fonts) and
> colours tend to vary a lot, so messages are in my experience
> visually noisy and actually *harder* to read than plain text.
Same can be said for any other way of communication. I can
foRmat
This also
sEmi
unreadablE
Proper programs will solve this.
And yes, Outlook is not one of them.
> 4. HTML mail can have embedded URLs and represent a security
> problem
Only if the reader allow it.
Again, dont consider Outlook.
> 5. Using HTML increases the size of messages, which affects a)
> storage space and b) bandwidth efficiency.
>
True, but this is true for all other web traffic - couple of extra tags
will surely not break the network. Tagging may even help with QoS.
My 2c worth
ps sorry for the inline, I know its a mailing list no no
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