Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Why is everyone having problems with HTML emails all of a sudden?
>
> Someone on another list was grizzling about HTML emails and he was running
> Pine 4.33 under BSF (whatever that is).
Top Ten Reason to Dispise HTML Emails:
10. HTML emails are impossible to quote
9. HTML emails are aesthetically ugly
8. auto-HTML formatting is brain-dead and subtracts rather than adds value
7. HTML emails are often poorly formatted since most people have no idea
how to use HTML
6. HTML emails are not readable by all mail readers
5. HTML emails waste bandwidth (I've seen 50Kb for a 6-line msg from Outlook!)
4. A series of reply to reply to reply to HTML emails quickly becomes
unreadable
3. HTML emails can contain web bugs and othe privacy breaches
2. HTML emails can contain security breaches
1. SMTP mail messages are plain text by definition
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