[pmmail-list] HTML formatting in PMMail

[Brian Morrison]

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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 01:10:05 +0100
"xavier caballe" <xavi@caballe.com> wrote:

> >> PM:  If it strips it of the tags, what's the problem?
> >Bandwidth. At least double that needed by a plain ascii post.
> 
> That's not an argument. If the code needed for formating a message
> makes it more useful, it worths the extra bandwith needed.

In cases where the recipient is expecting something of this nature, or
has solicited mail of this format, that's fine. One to one the
additional bandwidth is only multiplied by a factor of 1, and the
formatted document is likely to be important to both sender and
receiver.

> 
> For example, I believe tables are really good to format tabular data,
> colors are really useful for corrections, differents fonts make a long
> text more easier to read.

In some cases it does, I would happily receive a formatted document in
OpenOffice format for instance (or MS Word for the OS challenged).
However I would not expect that such a document would be encoded or
tagged and included inline, it should be sent as an attachment.

> 
> If you say... well, you can write a document on your word processor
> and mail it... that really makes a bad use of the bandwith. Also, to
> be coherent, you should say: don't use a word processor. A standard
> line editor, such as edlin, is the only tool you need to write a
> report! :)

All your arguments are correct in situations where people are tolerant
of such formats or practices, however I think you ought to know (in fact
I'm sure you do) that I was referring to USENET and mailing lists where
the group or list charter states that only plain ascii text is to be
used.

But I think we've moved on a bit from edlin.... ;-)

- -- 

Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk
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