On 5/15/00 at 9:12 PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

>It seems to be usually the case, for most messages that I've seen, that
>there's *no* added value to the HTML version.  I.e., other than adding
><BR> at the end of lines, and using microsoft-specific font settings at
>the beginning of each paragraph (usually all the same), there's nothing
>to be gained by using HTML except for bloating the message.
>
>So one question to ask is "why send HTML at all" in those cases?  It
>would be nice if MUA's could detect this case, and only send plain-text,
>and reserve HTML only for when it's actually adding something of value.

Some MUA's do just that.

pr
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Eudora Engineering - QUALCOMM Incorporated

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