[pmmail-list] hyper-text?

[Dave Hathaway]

Bzzzpt!  Wrong.

I am on a mailing list where the convention is to not trim quotes
when you reply.  As a result, the daily digest is probably 10X longer
because you get HTML broken in the reply, which then is HTML-ized
(making tags look like angle brackets, etc), only to be broken again.

Including generations of HTML crap has made one recent 19-message
digest balloon up over 31K.  That IS the result of using HTML in
emails.

Dave


--- Martin Moran <ommoran@telusplanet.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:08:09 -0400 (EDT), Jerry Prather wrote:
> 
> >they pay by bandwidth used.  To impose HTML on these people
> >is like telemarketers calling cell phones.  
> 
> Saying that implies that HTML must necessarily mean graphics.  It
> usually does not.
> 
> The bandwidth overhead to download a minimal number of extra
> characters
> for HTML formatting is itself miniscule.  I think a better place to
> start would likely be to trim the signatures (yours, mine *and* the
> one
> for this list especially) - that would probably do more to save
> bandwidth than the HTML tags.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Martin Moran                 ommoran@telusplanet.net
> Edmonton, Alberta            e-mail for my PGP key
> 
> "When you're caffeinated, all is right with the world"


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