Re: Boulder Pledge
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:42:44AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 17:06, Tim van Erven wrote:
> > * Rendering delays. Waiting > 1s for each mail to render is
> > unacceptable when you have to go through a lot of mail.
>
> Configure your MUA to ignore some of the more CPU-intensive markup (eg,
> images).
Isn't the onus on you as the proponent of HTML to sell it to the rest of
us? Specifically, what is the advantage of HTML for email? What can you
communicate with HTML that you can't with plain text?
Plain text has served email well for a couple of decades or more and I
still can't see any reason to change.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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