[pmmail-list] hyper-text?

[John Thompson]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Martin Moran wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:08:09 -0400 (EDT), Jerry Prather wrote:
>
> >they pay by bandwidth used.  To impose HTML on these people
> >is like telemarketers calling cell phones.
>
> Saying that implies that HTML must necessarily mean graphics.  It
> usually does not.
>
> The bandwidth overhead to download a minimal number of extra characters
> for HTML formatting is itself miniscule.  I think a better place to
> start would likely be to trim the signatures (yours, mine *and* the one
> for this list especially) - that would probably do more to save
> bandwidth than the HTML tags.

Except clients like Outlook create *two* copies of each message: one in
html, the other plain text.  That's *twice* the bandwidth of just sending
the plain text version, and that doesn't even count the "miniscule" html
markup tags.


-John (John.Thompson@attglobal.net)

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