>Ok I now have to but in. Based on this statement the net should go back to >pre html and we should also go back to DOS.
no >Lets throw away all rich content. no, but if you look at the graphics content of the top 10 visted website (eg, yahoo), you will see graphics are now minimized to non-existent. After the graphics designs of first and second generation websites, the best designed sites now have very little graphics and fanciness, and have tried to come up with the very much harder-to-do traffic-builder called "content". Users are looking for content, and graphics are nearly completely content-free. >Yes, that includes web browsing with html and GUI OS interfaces. we're talking only about email. While I don't want to receive HTML mail, I'd be quite happy to host high-volume mailing lists that send HTML mail, where the list hosting charge was based on SMTP traffic volume, because the message size of HTML body is 5 or 6 times the size of a plain text body. ie, I'd be happy to host HTML lists and charge somebody for 1000 gb of HTML traffic/month vs 150 or 200 gb of plain-text traffic (same content). Then the list owner can decide whether HTML mail brings in more business while incurring a real cost in bandwidth charges. Exactly like high-graphics websites "cost" the visitor in page load times and delays. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
