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

[Cristian Secara]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:41:13 +0200 (CED), Alexander Sarras wrote:

>> Since I have to pay for the time used to download email sent to me, I 
>> can't, won't or will ever read html-formated email. It wastes a lot of 
>> time and bandwidth, and doessn't conform to standards.

I am subscribed to other mailing lists too, not only PMMail.
One of the list (mountain climbing related) has young subscribers,
probably under age of 25. More than half of them are posting mixed
text/HTML messages, with no reason at all (thanks to Microsoft /
Netscape).
Except for two idiots that are using <FONT SIZE=+4> just for (their)
fun, the others do *nothing* to their text.

In the PMMail_mailing_list sense, I ... I have to do what ?
Unsubscribing ? Declare war to >50% of the ones posting messages ?
Become psychopathic ?
No, except the two (known) rejected users, I simply find more useful to
find out what the list have to share, than loose time with ... nothing.
I find more efficient to accept a (theoretical) increase of the
connection costs, keep almost all messages (including an increasing
HTML e-mail collection), ignore the technical underground *and* find
something *useful* in less than 10% from the overall messages. I have
to give something in exchange for a useful info, do I ?

The big (*BIG*) problem today is finding time for reading (all) my
incoming messages, not the resources needed to bring my messages from
the POP server to my computer ...

Best wishes,
	Cristi