On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:22:28AM +1000, Alister Waller wrote:
> Is there some rule about not using HTML formated email on this list??
It's a generally accepted convention that we don't send HTML formatted mail to
the list. The same goes for winmail.dat - please turn it off.
> if so, why is that?
A waste of bandwidth for no gain in content. Some of us will simply delete
HTML mail unread.
HTML formatting can more than double the size of a simple text message. Send
that as multipart/alternative and you send both text and html versions,
tripling the size of your message. Multiply that by the number of subscribers
and the number of messages posted to this list daily, and you have an enormous
amount of wasted bytes.
Cheers,
John
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