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

[Bernd Felsche]

On Saturday 05 June 2004 10:04, Tim White wrote:
> 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

That'd be as invasive as one that mangeled top-posting.

Yes; trash _attachments_.
Those who send HTML email, usually send the plain text as well.

> At 09:20 05/06/2004 +0800, you wrote:
> >On Saturday 05 June 2004 02:46, Brock Woolf wrote:
> > > 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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