[sclug] Question about HTML format e-mails

[Dickon Hood]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 23:05:57 +0000, Darren Davison wrote:
: On Thursday 02 December 2004 22:18, Tom Chance wrote:

: > 2 - It wastes bandwidth, which can be a real pain in the arse if you
: > download a lot of it on a slow connection.

And it's annoying to those of us who use terminal-based mail clients
(like, eg., me).  Adding:

text/html; lynx -force_html %s; needsterminal;

to your .mailcap file can help with that, but there's something
fundamentally *wrong* about using a web browser to read mail.

: I'm now using my mobile phone more and more to access my IMAP server and I 
: pay per byte downloaded.  It's not just only a pain in the arse, it's 
: bloody expensive and I'm one of those in the community who hold HTML mail 
: in complete contempt.  If someone needs me to see HTML, they can send me a 
: link to the web page.

Quite so.  I use my mobile to read mine quite often, but I just reattach
to whichever screen session I happen to need to read the mail on (work or
home).  But then Unix is like that.

: Just as bad are those who don't trim quoted text and send 50KB of text that 
: adds "me too" at the end.  Grrrr.

And top-post.  That's *really* irritating.

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