On Friday 13 July 2007 at 13:50:20 Kirrus wrote: > I use html emails all the time: Our customers request headers, and emails > that have a bit more style than just text on a page. If I want to eat, then > we provide what the customer wants, not what we'd prefer to do. There is > only so far, and on certain topics, you can push people. Getting them to > switch to Ubuntu was an accomplishment in itself...
Cool :-) But no, I'm not advocating the banning of HTML emails in any circumstances. I just don't think it should really become the norm, especially for mailing lists. I request that people send me plain text. It's all about choice, I suppose, but providing both doesn't really cut it with me. > > > It is not a unwanted feature, as it ensures that each individual > > > receives the email in the correct format. > > > > What about if I want it in spoken voice, encoded as an Ogg/Vorbis > > file? Can I > > have it in "the correct format" for me too? How about if I want it > > reworded in iambic pentameter? > > I'll leave the standards generation and reprogramming to you, but if you > want it, go right ahead ;) Ha ha, you've tempted me to think about it now... But the serious point is that I can't really expect the sender to have to account for all this. > > > TBH, the amount of bandwidth consumed through the > > > feature is negligible, especially compared to the bandwidth a single > > > > video > > > > > takes. > > > > True, but I don't tend to download videos via GPRS. > > True. A normal email is about 5-10Kb, including dual-encoding. > 5KB being a pain if you're on 7KB/s GPRS: yes. Unusable: no. Speed wise, it's not an issue. But if over the course of a month I use 4 MB of GPRS for emails, if everyone sends every email twice, then I have to pay for 8MB of bandwidth :-( In summary, I'd rather people didn't send me HTML mails, as I like to format things to my taste on my own screen. But, I think it's far worse to send everything twice. Pete. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
