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[cobalt-users] Re: HTML Posts nonsense

Jens wrote:
> Hehe. If you read A LOT of mail, like some of us do, then you wouldn't
like HTML. It is just so darn not usefull.

I could not disagree more with this statement.  E-mail all starts to look
alike and I appreciate someone that writes a good e-mail complete with
relevant points bolded and even hyperlinked.

> HTML takes longer to load, is slower to read - and has a lot of security
implications.

I had the worst case of Dejavu while reading this line.  I had a professor
that said the same things MANY years ago about Lynx versus the then new
mosaic and its graphics capabilities.  Not many of us would have a job if he
was right.

> Clear text has worked for years, is standardized, easy to read, easy to
parse and faster to load.

True but so what.  My first car was a dodge, and while it moved it did
little else.  I now know there is more to life than just function.

OK the truth is that plain text e-mail is much better for a mailing list
such as this, but instead of flames can't someone build a function into
Mailman or Majordomo that looks for the opening <html> tag and rejects the
message with a nice note to educate the user.

Seems to me we waste more time discussing this than actually doing something
to fix it.

Just my 2cents, I have been wrong from time to time.

Michael Aronoff
ma@xxxxxxxx
Calabasas, CA