Re: appropriate formats for email lists

[Doug Donalson]

Glen,

   You didn't defend ME when Alex ranted at me about HTML email a bit ago.
Now I'm really hurt. [grin]

D4


----- Original Message -----
From: glen e. p. ropella <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 6:30 PM
Subject: appropriate formats for email lists


> At 05:35 PM 7/18/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >run Unix exclusively (Solaris and Linux being the most popular) and
> >hence have no facility to read Word documents (unless they've
> >installed StarOffice or some other such bloatware); 2) Word documents
> >are large with respect to the text that they are actually encoding, an
> >ASCII version of the same thing can be around 25-30% of the size, and
> >so you save considerably on list bandwidth;
> [...]
> >While I'm in rant mode ;-) the above comments all apply to folks who
> >send mail in HTML format.  Please leave the HTML for those webpages.
>
> Now that's just plain wrong, Alex.  [grin]  HTML isn't significantly
> *larger* than ASCII.  It's not hard for unix users to read (Netscape,
> Arena, Mozilla, lynx, emacs, etc).  I suppose #3 has some validity;
> but, realistically, the unix mail clients should catch up to the
> mac and pc clients in their ability to parse marked up code.  But,
> it's not *that* valid of an objection since Netscape's mail client
> can do it.  And I'm sure emacs can be configured to parse it.
>
> So, while Word is not really appropriate, html is.  That said,
> I much prefer ascii as well.
>
> glen
>
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