-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kai Ponte wrote:
On Monday 17 November 2008 03:53:50 am peter nikolic wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008, Diego Tognola wrote:
Anyway, you're just not going to get both things: KMail _and_ decent HTML composition. ...sad but true, but there's a lot of users out there still hoping -
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:23:24 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: that's why I was asking initially. Here's one hoping that HTML based emails get done away with completely no winder people try to hide so many bugs in mail with this horrid HTML junk mail
HTML mail =wastebin.
Unfortunately, we're not living in the days of Pine anymore. HTML email is here to stay.
Keep in mind, most people don't give a rip about what format they're sending nor do they care about size or formatting or whatever.
Alienating the 99% of people who wish to send email - html or otherwise - is a bad choice.
As I said, I tried to reject HTML emails for awhile at work and got shot down. Even trying to enforce a bottom posting format was futile.
There are bigger fights to be had than whether or not email should be html or plain text.
But we are living in the age of dangerous HTML, and there is a case for rejecting HTML on potential security issues alone, bouncing it back to the sender as a potential security problem may educate some. Zero day exploits can and do occur, others may like living dangerously, I personally do not. I default to reading text but will read HTML it comes from a trustworthy source (Outlook != trusted). HTML can be quite bulky and the signal to noise ratio is quite high, which is possibly tolerable on an individual basis, but more of an issue for those who run and pay for the servers that actually distribute the mail. It is a highly inefficient use of resources and arguably has an implicit additional cost with little real return. I suspect a comparative cost analysis run past an organisations bean counters in the current financial climate might make things change somewhat :-) unsolicted HTML -> /dev/null - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkipzQACgkQasN0sSnLmgL5BQCeOLqNlBbmci6ujRIDrlYPTyXh HLsAn3kUuYsmYY29FY67USc3l9VSSZJK =SB3K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org