[NTLUG:Discuss] PlainText Vs HTML

[Geremy L. Hamlett]

As with some of the other posts regarding this topic, I feel that html
has no businsess in emails.  

Just an opinion form an avid MUTT user

>On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:58:58AM -0600, MadHat wrote:
> So a question about the list....
> 
> Does anyone (besides me) care about HTML mail on the list?
> 
> The old argument was that most readers didn't support it.  Now many do,
> including the one I use.  And now, the messages are sent, on average, as
> a multipart message, MIME encoded, so even if your client doesn't
> support the HTML, it _should_ show the plain text version.  Now with
> that comes larger messages and in some cases attachments. I don't like
> either, but I am a purest and considered to be an 'Old Timer' by
> many...  Basically my stance on lists has always been no attachments and
> no HTML/RTF and keep mail as small as possible to mailing lists, since
> not everyone is broadband.  Some of us pay for bandwidth.  There is
> still the issue of embedded images and javascript and such, but should
> that be left up to the end user to deal with?
> 
> I am curious how the denizens of this list feel.  We had the discussion
> before about basic rules, and I was going to put something up for
> reference.  I would like to ask people (off list) to turn off HTML, but
> if no one else cares, I am just being an ass.
> 
> So...  feedback?
> 
> 
> -- 
> MadHat at Unspecific.com
> "Anyone who understands Linux/Unix, really understands the universe.
>  Anyone who understands Windows, really understands Windows."
>           - Richard Thieme, DefCon 10, 2002 
> 
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