[pmmail-list] hyper-text?

[John Thompson]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Tim Roberts wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:08:09 -0400 (EDT), Jerry Prather wrote:
> >
> >Next, I'd like to point out that I am on a good many e-mail
> >lists which have a significant non-US membership.  Many of
> >these people don't have an unlimited hours-per-month ISP,
> >they pay by bandwidth used.  To impose HTML on these people
> >is like telemarketers calling cell phones.
>
> ....which is why most mailing list software forwards the text/plain sections.
>
> However, you are arguing against the GENERATION of HTML e-mail.  That's not the
> issue here.  I don't advocate "imposing" HTML on anyone.  But the stuff exists,
> and will continue to exist.  The issue is the PRESENTATION of that HTML e-mail.

At least 99% of the html email I receive is spam.  If the email servers
throughout the internet starting stripping non-pain-text content, my spam
problems would vanish.

The remaining html email is not spam, but is still annoying.

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-John (John.Thompson@attglobal.net)

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