----- Original Message ----- > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:44:08PM +1000, Michael Brown wrote: > > Anyway. surely you can configure Mailman to strip HTML if it really > > bothers you. HTML mail is just as much as a standard as ASCII I would > > have thought - if your mail reader can't deal with it, maybe it is > > time to upgrade, rather than demanding everyone else reconfigure their > > clients. > > HTML e-mail is *far* from a standard. There are several reason not to > use it not a single reason to use it. HTML e-mail bloats the size of > any message to at lease double (unless you send HTML only, which is even > worse).
The bandwidth used is only a waste if you don't like the feature. Everything on the internet "wastes" bandwidth in someones opinion, it's just a matter of benifits outweighing the bandwidth usage. Jabber is a prime example of this since it sends everything in "bloated" XML - but in my opinion the trade off is worth it. > Beyond that it is very prevalent mechanism for spread viruses > and other malignant items. True. Same can be said about the web. > There is no good reason to use HTML in > e-mail. Anything and everything that can be conveyed in an HTML e-mail > can be conveyed in plain-text and other formats as well if not better. That is obviously complete crap. If that was true the web would use ASCII. This is getting way off topic - so this will be my last post on the topic. Just to reiterate, I'm not advocating that HTML mail on the list is a good idea (notice I always send ASCII messages when I remember), I was just taking issue with the unfriendly tone in which it was communicated, and I can't see any good reason why HTML can't be filtered by mailman (see FAQ #5 http://www.list.org/faq.html) so that people don't have to reconfigure their email client because of Peters preferences. > > After all "change clients" is the only response I got when I was > > trying to figure out how to stop Outlook Express displaying mail from > > whatever-cursed-client sends all those PGP messages to the list that > > show up as .txt file attachments. (If I want to read them I have to > > open each one up in Notepad...) > > That is a flaw in Outlook Express, not with the message being sent. > This is a cause of comparing Apples and Oranges. Be that as it may - thanks Andrew and others (Rachel) I can now read your posts without having to go into Notepad! Michael. _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
