On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Larry Finger
Sending non-HTML Email is extremely good practice. Why should *every* piece of mail be bloated in size by a factor of 3 or 4 so that it "looks pretty" on your screen when it is perfectly OK on mine in Thunderbird.
Did I say *every* piece of email? No. Plain text is fine for most of the email on this list. My point is that it would be nice if people had the option to use a little formatting to help get their point across (which is why formatting exists). Anyway, yes the increase in size is a valid counter-argument (the only one I know of), but is your inbox really causing you to run out of disk space? If so then how can you possibly be reading it? This just seems like a very weak counter-argument. I mean, everyone out there must get lots of HTML formatted email from other sources. It's perfectly readable. What's the real problem? Just seems mostly like all arguments against add up to nothing more than historical inertia. Anyway, I think I understand where the anti-HTML sentiment comes from. It comes from 1995 when a bunch of AOL people started sending email for the first time and made a mess of the tidy little world all of use computer types had constructed. We were all still using /usr/bin/mail and trying to parse HTML directly with your eyes made your head hurt (yes, I was there). But the world has evolved. We have new tools... we should be able to use them.
One other thing is that if you ever need to use any of the major Linux mailing lists at vger.kernel.org, your HTML-containing effort will get rejected immediately. Those list expressly forbid all the extra garbage.
You are correct, they don't like HTML either. So what? Linus is a benevolent dictator. If I was dictator I'd make the opposite choice. -Archie -- Archie L. Cobbs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org