On 14:09 25 Jan 2002, Michael Montagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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 | understand is the argument that it slows down the internet for everyone. | Isn't HTML just text?
Yes. | The tags are evaluated and formatted at the | client. So is it just that there is more text than there needs to be? Yes. | Or is it the links and scripts that are often included? Yes. | I'd like to be more informed as I operate in an office full of windows | users who like to format everything in sight. Well, there are plenty of things that don't handle all the whiz-bang HTML markup. God knows how the blind feel. And if ythey need this pretty junk to express their intent then I'd say they're somewhat illiterate. And you should see the hideous things it does to mail list archives. I saw this great sig quote somewhere.... Ah... -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I wanted to read your article but it had a bunch of HTML code and brackets and garbage, instead of content. Maybe you could try posting it again? - Al Iverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
