On 23/01/2017 1:55 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Ed Mullen composed on 2017-01-22 18:49 (UTC-0500):
Virtually no one I communicate with uses plain text and hasn't in
decades. And 99.9% of commercial email is HTML. I just don't get
the aversion to it.
1-styling that, like most web sites, disregards user settings,
resulting in tiny fonts and other abuse of those whose settings
and/or vision isn't the equal of the sender.
Any tool can be used well or badly. That's the sender's choice, and
smart senders should learn to use HTML well.
By the same token, smart users should learn to set their prefs according
to their needs. If "medium" size = 12 pt is too small, redefine it to 18
pt or whatever floats your boat.
2-overhead that almost always is unnecessary to the communication of
words. e.g a 1.3KB email I send to a yahoogroups.com mailing list
being returned at 18.9KB, the vast majority of increase which is
embedded styling and markup, overhead that remains for each message
that is kept for reference instead of being discarded.
In the modern era of terabyte disks and gigabyte RAM, who the (*&^(*&^
cares about a couple of extra kilobytes? It may be mathematically or
logically inelegant, but we're talking about sofa-cushion change, not
real money.
Pick me!! I care!! And what give you the (*&^(*&^ right to require me to
spend some of my meager dollars on bigger HD's and faster internet
connections just so that *you* can feel smug, Paul??
One day, if I'm lucky, I'll get an ADSL standard connection. But not soon!!
--
Daniel
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