Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

On 3 Nov, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:28:06AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > > HTML is a text markup facility. > > MIME is a general-purpose encoding scheme for *any* content type. > > > > Tell me, Luke, how would MIME help you enriched email > > using MIME? The only way I

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:28:06AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > HTML is a text markup facility. > MIME is a general-purpose encoding scheme for *any* content type. > > Tell me, Luke, how would MIME help you enriched email > using MIME? The only way I can think of is encoding an enriched > docum

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With the recent discussion about reasons for not using HTML for email, > I was surprised that no one mentioned that there is a pre-existing > carefully designed international standard format for enriched mail, > called MIME, which has been in existence for donkey's yea

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

With the recent discussion about reasons for not using HTML for email, I was surprised that no one mentioned that there is a pre-existing carefully designed international standard format for enriched mail, called MIME, which has been in existence for donkey's years. Though I only know of one mail

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

> Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? What is the benefit > of this? Is this a linux geeky type thing?? I use pine becasue it is fast, simple, works in a ssh session, and is immune to all of the problems you get with spam and HTML mail, like web bugs etc. Jason -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

Here, here (8-) Caution, mailer war on the horizon. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Rodos wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > Then there's the Pine users, but we wo

RE: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

From: Rodos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > >> Then there's the Pine users, but we won't go into that. :D > >Oi, I resemble that comment! Appart from not having thread support I am >very happy with it. Works well over SSH. You mean there's a better way than

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Then there's the Pine users, but we won't go into that. :D Oi, I resemble that comment! Appart from not having thread support I am very happy with it. Works well over SSH. Rodos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Then there's the Pine users, but we won't go into that. :D And what's wrong with the Pine users? And do you wanna make something of it? :-) _MY_ version of PINE strips HTML crap perfectly. :-) DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - ht

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

Alister Waller said something along the lines of: > I have now switched to plain text. Hooray! :) > Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? What is the benefit > of this? Is this a linux geeky type thing?? Matt Elkins, the original author of mutt (the email client I use) qu

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:06:27AM +1000, Alister Waller wrote: > I have now switched to plain text. Thank you. > Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? What is the benefit Because mutt is the best mail client I've found so far. Because I appreciate content far more than sty

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

and while I think of it, sometimes every byte counts: http://www.caa.org.au/groups/IT/dili/index.html Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

> Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? Because emails are text messages. Text messages do not need and should not be using a markup language like HTML. Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinf

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

Alister Waller wrote: ...snip... > Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? The real answer is why not? They still work and work well. My pet hate is the arms race that people are forced into with linux. >What is the benefit of this? Faster, less storage, simple, easier, le

RE: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

Alister Waller [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? What > is the benefit of this? Is this a linux geeky type thing?? > Seems strange when you look at what computers are capable of > that a minority (I am taking a stab in the virtual darkness) >

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

Alister Waller wrote: > Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? What is the benefit > of this? Is this a linux geeky type thing?? > Seems strange when you look at what computers are capable of that a minority > (I am taking a stab in the virtual darkness) still insist on using a t

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alister Waller generated: >Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? What is the benefit >of this? Is this a linux geeky type thing?? Have you ever used mutt? it's the least sucky of all the mail clients out there. i find the useablilty/conformance to standa

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alister Waller wrote: > Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? What is the benefit > of this? Is this a linux geeky type thing?? It's commonly known as "lowest common denominator". In other words, you distribute in the format that you're guaranteed your LE

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

I am sure we all like to grab the odd mp3, but with that in mind, you'd be refering to bandwidth we pay for off our own backs. But as someone pointed out, when it comes to a mail list, not only do we all pay for the emails, but someone also must pay for the server/servers the email list is hoste

Re: [SLUG] Html Email Format part 2

I hope you have asbestos pants on cos this is flame bait (8-) I use Pine which is essentially text based, but it can handle html, it just ignores the tags. I think the main problem is bandwidth and the fact that html email can be used to activate exploits in some browsers. ...and no, I don't do