On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 05:45, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:42:44AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
> > 
> > Configure your MUA to ignore some of the more CPU-intensive markup (eg,
> > images).
> 
> I have; my MUA ignores ALL HTML markup.  Along with the text between the
> tags.

Then the email appears blank?

> > So, some sort of very lightweight wannabe HTML? Why not just strip out
> > undesired markup from HTML, and not create the burden of having _yet_
> > _another_ format to render?
> 
> Why not use text, and not create the burden of having _yet_ _another_
> format to render?

Like it or not, HTML already exists. Like it or not, HTML is already in
wide use. Like it or not, HTML is already widely implemented.

Alex.

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