don't like HTML email? here's your fix.

[Steve Lamb]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:43:27PM +0100, David Gaskill wrote:
> On my 56 K modem the difference in cost to download an Ascii e-mail 
> and an html formatted e-mail would be a tiny fraction of the cost of the 
> cup of coffee I am drinking as I compose this. 

    Economics of scale.  1 message with an extra 12k of crap isn't much.  400
messages of an extra 12k is a lot.  Something approaching a Mb which is, what,
15 minutes on your modem?  Now, multiply that per day and you get a nice sum
of, oh, an extra $4-5/month for you.  

    For what?  No added functionality at all and, generally, a complete
waste.
 
> The bandwidth and standards issue seems to be something of a holy war 
> rather than a logical argument. The anti-html e-mail crusade appears to 
> have as its objective the preservation of civilisation as we know it and 
> the sanctity of standards. (Next perhaps "TCPIP is an abomination - all 
> right-thinking citizens use Morse"). 

    The point is just because it is there doesn't mean there is a use for it.
There is a clear difference between TCP/IP and morse code, a clear
technological advancement.  There is, quite simiply, NONE, when it comes to
HTML in email.  

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