Love thy mutt-ng users

Sun Feb 12 01:48:43 GMT 2006

Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
Mark
Please don't reply directly to me; I'm on the list, if you reply I'd 
rather get it there. Otherwise, I get a thread-break, I can't sort it 
(no list-id) etc etc.

> Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> 
>>><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>>><html>
>>><head>
>>>  <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
>>></head>
>>><body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000">
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>C’mon Mark, you should know better than to post in HTML-only…
>>  
>>
> Wow, I decided to do this only today, figuring that "the world has had good html 
> mail readers for at least five years, everyone must have this sorted". Clearly 
> not :-)
> 
> So, should I stay with text forever? HTML is perfectly open and standardised now.
> 

html is also voluminous, an affront to my modem which is sorely 
overtaxed now.

Some years ago I discovered that by removing HTML from certain web 
pages, I could reduce their volume by 90%.

I've not used kmail recently (as in the past year), but when I did it 
refused to display HTML (unless the user changed its settings) "for 
security reasons." Call me an old fogy if you wish, but the less 
massaging needed the better I feel.

I've never heard anyone complain about Plain Text;-)