Hi there,
I came across a compelling reason to stick to text only mail over the
weekend. I was up in Canada and could only access my e-mail via a bare
telnet link. This put me back into the world of elm, vi, etc. As a
consequence, I could only easily read text only mail. The one bit of
HTML mail which did arrive was readable, but only just.
A second reason for favouring text only mail is that there are still a
few non-MIME compliant mail systems out there, amazingly enough. There
is one at John's Hopkins U. for example. I am a great believer in
backward compatibility. For this reason, I remain a strong advocate of
text only mail.
That is my two cents. All the best,
Istvan
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