[pmmail-list] hyper-text?

[John Thompson]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Tim Roberts wrote:

> I'd like to take a blasphemous position here, if I may.
>
> While what you say was true a few years ago when HTML e-mail was just being
> explored, it is no longer true.  The uncomfortable fact is that Microsoft
> Outlook now defines how HTML e-mail is to be rendered.

One word: "bandwidth"
Another word: "security"

These are more than enough to justify mail as a plain-text medium as
described in the relevant RFC's.

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-John (John.Thompson@attglobal.net)

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