On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Rick Welykochy wrote: > 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).
I'm using the same version of Pine under RedHat 7.2 > Top Ten Reason to Dispise HTML Emails: > > 10. HTML emails are impossible to quote Incorrect, I'm able to reply to the original post *AND* I didn't even notice it was in HTML till you quoted it. > > 9. HTML emails are aesthetically ugly I tend to agree > 8. auto-HTML formatting is brain-dead and subtracts rather than adds value Probably > 7. HTML emails are often poorly formatted since most people have no idea > how to use HTML Got that right! > 6. HTML emails are not readable by all mail readers True. The sender *should* include a non-html version as well. The mail client should spot the text only version & display that. People who happen to be running Linux should upgrade to a later version of their favourite mail reader and possibly the /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime* files if they're still seeing raw html in their email so there's no problem there really. > 5. HTML emails waste bandwidth (I've seen 50Kb for a 6-line msg from Outlook!) Amen to that! But the same could be said for poor quoting style and excessively large signatures both of which are on my personal hate list. Folks, it doesen't take much effort to prune your replies! > 4. A series of reply to reply to reply to HTML emails quickly becomes > unreadable If you take 'HTML' out of above statement it still holds true in my opinion. Definitely a mess will result quicker if you quote the HTML code instead of the result as in your case. > 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 Prolly right on all 3 there. I would *prefer* it if people stuck to plain text. Except for attachments :-) -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
