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

Tim White weirdo at tigris.org
Sat Jun 5 10:04:53 WST 2004


couldn't all the emails coming in to the plug list be sent through a 
filter? something like html2text that doesn't put the console formating in?
Tim
At 09:20 05/06/2004 +0800, you 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.
>
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