text vs html posts on this list...

[Carlos Davila]

Tim,

One has to respect the culture of any individual list. I've received 
enough responses to know that html posts are not very popular here and 
that's fine with me....so I'll send my posts in text.

That said, I have to confess that I am not entirely sold on all of the 
explanations of why html is bad. For one thing...this is a list about 
Linux....so one presumes most of the list members are *using* Linux; are 
there many viruses out there which will run on Linux? My last hard drive 
cost about US$0.60 per gigabyte...so I'm not sure the "large" size of 
html emails is a legitimate argument. The other argument was that folks 
with dialup connections will have lengthy downloads...it's not clear 
just how much longer it takes a typical html post to download on a 56k 
connection than on a broadband connection, probably not much longer. 
Also, apparently, not everyone uses email readers that support 
html...that may have been a problem back in the days when only pine or 
elm were around, but should this be a problem in 2004?

Regards,
CD


Timothy Payne wrote:
 > Most people were very nice and gave good explanations of why no html.
 > But don't be afraid to post.  You will get some nasty answers
 > occasionally, why I don't know but then again you'll never forget the
 > answer :-)
 >
 > Tim...