Re: PLUG - The Happy Fun List! - [Was: Re: [PLUG] KDE 3.0...is slow]

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

> > If it has some HTML elements that aren't critical or that can be
> > represented as plain text, I send as both plain text and HTML which
> > gives the reader a choice.
> >    
>
> First: what about a textual communication could possibly require
> HTML?
>
> Second: please don't do that here. That significantly more than
> doubles the size of your message and wastes everyone's bandwidth. If
> it's presentable as plain text, send it that way. If it's
> unpresentable as plain text, put it on a web page and send us a URL.

Some forms of text formating require HTML.  But, fair enough.  When 
Mozilla asks how I want to send a message to PLUG I'll tell it to send 
in plain text.  So I stand by my recommendation to config the composer 
to prompt for a formatting decision before sending.  Forcing *all* 
e-mail to send as plain text is too limiting.


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