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I formated the mail with "infinately long
lines" just to be pain in your tush.
I use windows because it's what comes installed, not because
it's any
better, but no other os has the availability of programs that
windows does.
clueless
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 2:47
AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] strip-mime
and aol
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, hotmail user
wrote:
>
> Dear "Clueless",
> You not answer question,
either..
> ha, ha!!
>
> Get real, Rickie, this is the 21st
Century, HTML here to stay. It's
> called freedom to send email in
whatever format I want.
You seem to be unaware of the costs...
text/html takes up 3x the space
of text/plain. Its only readable by people
running certain software,
(meaning its not RFC821/RFC822 compliant, and
can't be read by shell
account users with normal shell mail programs). I
don't know your
financial situation, but I have limited resources for my
client
accounts and can't afford to store both a readable format
(text/plain)
and an unreadable format (text/html) in my
archives.
Personally, I don't like html email because it requires my
extracting the
text to a file and then running a text based web browser to
view it.
I suppose that if two people with the tools to view such an
email, want to
correspond via non-text email, that's thier business. For
mailing list
mail one has to insure the usablity of the information. To me
that means
text/plain format. I run stripmime for all my lists, and
actually have not
had problems with AOL's builtin email, (AOL 6.0 uses
multipart/alternative,
AOL 7.0 can be configured to send just text/plain
and stripmime removes
the non-plain parts, leaving just a text/plain
part).
I also noted, your email had infinately long lines. I
guess
Windows is really incapable of generating email with
reasonable
line lengths. *sigh*
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