On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:46:59PM +0000, Tony's unattended mail wrote: > On 2012-11-24, Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > > > > Yeah, I said exactly that in another message. Now generate HTML > > mail with Mutt. Plus you still get a lot of folks -- many of whom > > use GUI clents -- who complain about HTML mail for any number of > > reasons. And at least a few of them are legitimately arguable > > concerns. A good > > start: > > > > http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml > > 6/7 of those are good reasons to condemn HTML e-mail with todays tools > in a hypothetical scenario where tools cannot improve. (The bandwidth > waste claim is silly and can be disregarded in these days of Youtube > streaming and a diminishing dial-up community).
With regards to mailing list posts, which is what the original post of mine was addressing, sending HTML posts is very wasteful. They are archived in various places on the Net, where they are stored for ever and a day. Yeah, yeah, hard disks are cheap etc. etc. etc, but that is not the issue¹. Some lists have thousands of subscribers and so the waste of bandwidth delivering HTML posts is even more of an issue. Yeah, yeah, most people have high speed internet connections these days etc. etc. etc, but that is not the issue¹. Wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who said "waste not want not". ¹ If you can't see the issue; google "why is waste bad" Web Results 1 - 10 of about 244,000,000 for why is waste bad. (0.23 seconds) It's an attitude issue. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
