E-mail conventions (was: Re: [plug] Debian VS Mandrake)

[Bret Busby]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Bernd Felsche wrote:

> 
> On Saturday 05 June 2004 02:46, Brock Woolf wrote:
> > > I don't find HTML e-mail as obnoxious as some people here do.
> >
> > Neither do I. But you get that i guess. Is there a reason for this
> > anti-HTML?
> 
> 15 cents per megabyte is a typical charge for "excess downloads" ...
> or only a few years ago; 1 cent per kilobyte.
> 
> Plus it adds *nothing* but bulk to the message; often bloating size
> 5-fold. If one bothers to archive even a small proportion of emails,
> then the storage and management requirements increase
> correspondingly.
> 
> 

Quite apart from the size, an HTML email message can mean that the 
recipient gets pages of raw HTML source code, making the message not worth 
reading.

Plain text format can be read by all people using email applications.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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