Michael -- ...and then Michael Montagne said... % % >On 25/01/02, from the brain of Marco tumbled: % > You must answer that it's like mailing a letter inside a three pounds % > box ... at the expense of the receiver. ... % % I often read about the evils os HTML email and since I do all my email % with mutt now, I appreciate text email. But something I don't
Good for you :-) % understand is the argument that it slows down the internet for everyone. % Isn't HTML just text? The tags are evaluated and formatted at the % client. So is it just that there is more text than there needs to be? % Or is it the links and scripts that are often included? If we assume that content is size x, then we can also assume that any formatting thereof must increase the message size from x to x+n. Unfortunately, it is not at all uncommon for generated HTML to have n much greater than x. Hence the size argument; every letter takes twice (thrice? more?) as much bandwidth, processing, and disk space when formatted in HTML versus plain ASCII. Off-topic meandering: I think it would be lovely to automatically compress all email before sending and have it opened on the other end, but that not only gets into more MIME types (I think it could be done pretty easily but haven't played with it, and certainly haven't thought about the troubles of, say, searching within a compressed mail body) but also costs processing power to package up and then open up the item. For those on a dialup link, though, it could be a real blessing. % I'd like to be more informed as I operate in an office full of windows % users who like to format everything in sight. Best of luck! % % -- % Michael Montagne % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.boora.com :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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