On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:41:04PM +0100, Andrew Savory wrote: > Hi, > > On 1/28/08, Chris Croughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sigh. Yes, it is a performance issue. This whole (part of) the thread > > was about the size of the HTML part which more than doubles the size of > > files/bandwidth/CPU time, not about "can I read it?" (which as has been > > pointed out several times be solved by piping it through lynx or > > whatever). How do I read just the non-HTML parts when they are all in > > the same file? > > I'd suggest that in this modern world we live in, worrying about the > difference between an HTML and a text email is excessive optimisation.
And I say it isn't. Not everyone uses 3GHz AMD64 machines with 16GB RAM and 50TB hard disk, or has 100Mb/s broadband straight to their house. > > > > Or I can just leave. Or less drastically dump all HTML messages at the > > > > server so I'll just miss people who post that way. > > > > > > It would be shame to loose you.., but then wouldn't it be a shame to > > > exclude all those Outlook, Yahoo and GMail users we would like to > > > incorporate into our movement? > > > > Sigh. Once again, no one is saying "lose the Outlook, Yahoo and GMail > > users". The existing mailserver converts HTML into text, it has been > > said, all us Luddites are saying is keep on doing that. Anyone reading > > the list with any mail client can read text. > > But gosh, wouldn't it be a more fulfilling and wonderful user > experience for the rest of the world if they found their de facto mail > format was also accepted (not stripped, munged, mangled, downgraded > ... but *accepted*) on a free software mailing list? Fine, go ahead and use Outlook and other MS crap if you want. Once I see it coming in on the list I'm out of here and I'll be telling people to avoid it. EOM _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
