No HTML in mail, please (was: How about GNUphoria - was PEU CVS)

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jbrown1050 wrote:

> I second .... __LOUDLY__!!!
>
> jbrown
>
> On  0, Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:30:49 -0800, kbochert at copper.net wrote:
>
> Any chance of disabling HTML when you post to this list, please
>
>> <HTML><HEAD>
>> </HEAD>
>> <BODY>
>> </PRE>
>>
>>
>> <div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:48:51 -0800,
>> David Cuny wrote:</FONT></div>
>> <div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> &gt;Karl Bochert
>> wrote:</FONT></div>
>> <div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> &gt;</FONT></div>

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Me too.

There are several reasons why HTML should *not* be used in e-mail, e.g.:
- It is not necessary.
- HTML is a language for building web pages, not for e-mail.
- Not all e-mail clients can show HTMLized text. Then it looks as shown
  above, and is almost unreadable.
- HTML encoding is additional overhead. A HTML file can have 10 times
  (sic!) the size of a plain text file with the same content.
  So online bandwidth and space on the users harddisk is wasted.
- HTML can contain scripts (that can be viruses and worms)!!

Here is a good webpage about this topic:
(Sorry, only in German, but I'm sure there will be good English
 sources, too.)

   http://www.nolte-buerotechnik.de/keinhtmlinemails.html

Regards,
   Juergen

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