Re: [cobalt-users] Netiquette: HTML email

[Joe D <Joed@xxxxxxxx>]

Does anyonw know a failsafe boot method for the raq3i?



Jeff Lasman wrote:

> I've just gotten an email from someone who read me on this list.  He shall
> remain nameless; I'm sure his mistake is honest.
>
> I can't easily read it.
>
> Many of who use Linux as our operating systems do NOT read HTML mail.
>
> HTML is NOT a standard Internet email protocol.
>
> Microsoft decided arbitrarily to add it.  A lot of other vendors
> followed.  That doesn't make it right.  There are still an awful lot of
> mail clients out there that don't read HTML mail.  And most HTML mail is
> about three times larger than regular email with exactly the same content.
>
> While my current email client CAN read HTML email, I don't enable the
> capability; I don't consider it a feature, but in fact, a bug.
>
> I do read HTML email from my clients; after all, I'm being paid to do so,
> so I don't mind going through the extra steps.  But I do try to educate
> them to not use HTML email, especially on professional forums, and to
> mailing lists in general.
>
> I also try to read HTML email on this (and a few other lists); it's a lot
> easier when your client sends both HTML and plaintext copies, though that
> is exactly what makes the message three times the size, wasting data
> transfer and bandwidth (which a lot of people outside of the US pay for; in
> the United Kingdom (England) people actually pay to download their email,
> for example.
>
> Please turn off HTML email if you're going to operate in the unix/linux world.
>
> Thanks <smile>!
>
> Jeff
>
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> Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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