Re: registration? Not Needed.

Mike Scott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 15/03/11 12:51, David B Teague sr wrote:
....
>
> I knew that Thunderbird's default is to send email in both text and
> HTML, but I was NOT aware that people still use email readers that can't
> display the text portion of email without the HTML part.
>
> I have not had any complaints from anyone about posting in HTML until
> now. I can be very annoying at times, so as I said, I make every effort
> to rectify the unnecessary things that annoy some.

It's not just "annoyance". html is /vastly/ bigger than the 
corresponding straight text file and chews up link bandwidth, mailer 
bandwidth and disk space (I've seen one-liner emails with megabytes of 
pretty "paper" attached, the originator being quite unaware of what they 
were doing). And because it's more complex to decipher, it's 
correspondingly less secure (so decent MUAs have yet another html render 
program to make sure they don't use the insecure system-provided one) 
and it's harder to detect and chuck spam. It just seems so unutterably 
pointless.

IMO of course.

But this is rather OT for the list, I think :-)

-- 
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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