On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:58 PM, James Hatridge <James.Hatridge@gmx.de> wrote:
So far you're the only one to give a real answer to this, thanks for that. Do you know if kmail has this option? I've not been able to find it. But this still bring us back to the first question. Why does this list not keep up with the times.
Please read the responses on this issue. The mailing list programs are not behind times. Text only mode is the setting. This is true for *all* FOSS technical mailing lists that I am a member (openSUSE, CentOS, Debian, bridge-utils, linux-kvm, openwrt, zeroshell, voyage linux ......) It has nothing to do with cheaper storage and/or faster bandwidth. Whereas, HTML formatted messages are the norm in Web forums and you will hardly see any pure text based discussions and that is OK for Web forum as you view them in your web browser.
Ten years ago, when almost no one had anything faster than 56k then it was understandable. But now even someone one out in the middle of no where Germany has at least DSL 2000 so this rule is silly. I'm on over 60 lists and am the owner of 4. This is the only list I have this problem with.
Not true Please see above. A counter point about your net connectivity speeds - in many developing nations the speeds that you are talking about is not even within the reach of enterprises or at very hefty price. In some nations even a dial up connection is the luxury of a few and their bandwidht is *metered*. Now imagine your **HTML rich** message getting loading into his/her mailbox. First of all it takes time and secondly his/her usage gets counted for every useless character of the HTML formatted message that goes into the mailbox. Therefore, plain text messages is the most suitable denominator IMO. Email/SMTP was meant for plain text. HTML formatted messages get encoded and sent as MIME attachment. It is true that most email clients have can handle this and decode the MIME attachment into your *rich* presentation format. And yes, KMail can be configured to send HTML or plain text depending on the recipient. I don't have it front of me but look around the settings section. My two cents. -- Arun Khan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org