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  • Subject: Re: HTML formatted email
  • From: Gwecnal@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:00:19 EDT

In a message dated Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:22:56 -0400, "Boling, David E." 
<bolingde@co.rowan.nc.us> writes:

>  I guess my first point is, that if you can't receive HTML mail you already
>  have a work around (stripper, reformat program, whatever) or otherwise your
>  not able to read a great deal (most?) of the email being sent in the world
>  already.  

My reader supports HTML but the list digester for this list (and seven other 
lists
I subscribe to) does not.  I subscribe to the digest version because it 
reduces
my (high cost) connect time.  This list (and the other lists) ban HTML 
because:

1) HTML increases the size of e-mails from 3 to 15 times (take a look 
sometime)
2) A desire on the part of the list owner to make things simpler for users.
3) Tools used to index, archive, search work better with plain text.

>  We do broadcast TV programs to radio all the time, with is then stripped of
>  the images.  Much like  HTML being stripped of formatting for a text user.

The digest version is ALREADY GARBAGE because of HTML before I get it.
No tool I could own would help.  Subscribe to the digest version for a week
and maybe you will FINALLY understand what everyone is saying!

>  Which leads to my second point...We didn't stop TV from being used because
>  some people only had a radio.

Yes, - but you did not insist on broadcasting the TV signal over radio 
frequencies
so that radio owners got 8% sound and 92% snow, static, and garbage and the
tell them "You people are RADIO OPERATORS (programmers)  for goodness sake! 
Don't get bogged down in the past. You have an obligation to stay at the 
bleeding edge. Surely you can solder up some circuits that will strip away 
all the stuff you don't want"

The FAQ says no HTML, so no HTML.  Surely you can configure your email
software not to send HTML to lists that request it.  You are, after all, a 
programmer, no?

HTH, Lance
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