Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yes. Three times larger is only if you have a *really* pathetically bad
> converter.
That's only half of the issue. Most users who send HTML send identical
plaintext and the HTML-encoded segments, so the resultant document is
twice as large before taking into account the formatted-text-to-html
issue. And for those readers who don't have HTML capability, sending _only_
the HTML version can be a problem, too.
But these are tools issues, mostly solvable if there is a will to solve
them.
Regarding the recent discussion on html-aware mailers (pine, I think),
was that the UNIX version or pc-pine? As a long-time character-based UNIX
and elm user, I find the UNIX versions of pine both limiting and annoying
at times, and I've never had much luck with pc-pine. (Or taken the time
to learn X, which always strikes me as the wrong solution, no matter what
the problem is.)
Too bad elm doesn't have the html engine from lynx in it.
--
Mike Nolan
