Hi !
Thanks for the answer, it is more that i receive several html mails, i
don't see the sense in sending one either.
Greez
Dave
>
>> Not to this topic, but is there a mail client for Linux capable of html ?
>
>Netscape Mail is fully capable of HTML messages. However, you shouldn't
>use HTML messages on a mailing list (or at all, for that matter).
>Please note that the following diatribe is not directed at any
>particular people on this list. It may even be completely off base
>from the intended topic. Here are the reasons that people get annoyed
>with HTML messages:
>
>1) A lot of people use ascii mail readers. If all you're doing is
>reading mail, why open up slow and bloated netscape, when you can use
>pine, balsa, kmail, etc? HTML mail on non HTML browsers looks like
>crap. Especially weird HTML like Outlook.
>
>2) HTML messages, especially from Outlook, are much larger in size than
>the equivalent ascii message. Instead of downloading a 2k message, you
>sometimes end up with a 50k message. Some people don't have dsl or isdn
>connections. Some people, believe it or not, still connect with a 14.4
>modem. To ask them to by a new modem of 75$ just so that they can see
>the exact same messge with different fonts is rude. And think of the
>poor mail server having to dish out hundreds of megabytes of messages
>instead of just hundreds of kilobytes.
>
> 2) Even if you're using Netscape or another HTML capable
>mail reader, a lot of people don't know what they're doing when they
>play around with fonts, colors, etc. Case in point is a certain
>secretary at work who insists on sending out important messages with
>all sorts of colors. She loves to use light blue, dark orange, etc.,
>most of which are completely unreadable on my default gray background.
>
>3) You should follow the number one rule of using HTML: Content is
>Everything. If there is no reason to use HTML, don't. No one on the
>internet is going to complain if you DON'T use HTML. Trust me on this
>one :-)
>
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