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Re: Boulder Pledge



On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:03:34AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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?

Note that the proponent of switching email to HTML is the same guy who
last week was ranting against the "non-standard, crap DJB header" that
is Mail-Followup-To:

Draw your own conclusions :-)

-- 
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
  There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
  arithmetic and those that can't.



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