On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:46, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:26:27AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 05:03, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I'm not really trying to sell it. I'm trying to find out why other > > people dislike it, and dispel any myths or half-truths about it. > > Well, mostly it is unnecessary. It also annoys me because I have to wait > a second or so for mutt to call lynx to render it back to plain text. Lynx takes a 'second or so' to render HTML to plain text? What kind of hardware are you running it on, a PDP-11? Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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