HTML emails, was DOS in LINUX

[debiani386 at gmail.com]

On Fri June 15 2007 4:06 pm, SteVe Cook wrote:
> James Takac wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 June 2007 01:27:45 George Farris wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2007-14-06 at 20:46 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> >>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> >>>> As do I   (dump html emails)  and I am sure a lot of others do too.
> >>>
> >>> I just view all emails text.  Doesn't save bandwidth (no real need for
> >>> me), but I don't have to deal with the crap either.
> >>>
> >>> Matt Flaschen
> >>
> >> What the are you talking about, of course it saves bandwidth.  A simple
> >> text email consisting of 100 characters turns into over 400 + the
> >> original 100.  My math says, that is 5 times bigger, multiplied by
> >> however many thousands are on the email list and you end up with an
> >> incredible waste of bandwidth.
> >>
> >> html mail = bad plain and simple
> >
> > actually the html mail is just text. The bandwith is in any images and
> > such that might be linked in the mail most times. And that can be
> > overcome on various mail clients by telling them not to view them as
> > html. Just leaves the messy html tags which are text littering the mail
>
> Actually it's 0s & 1s and html formatted mail sends a lot more of them.
>   Even if you tell your email to ignore the html it still gets sent to
> you using up your band width and taken longer to arrive.
>
> SteVe

this subject is beginning to sound more appropriate now.