On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:10:14AM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > And if you're not convinced yet, look at: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2003-August/msg00003.html > > Hummm, that is weird. I do wrap the lines. I do them by hand yet the archives > do not show them as wrapped. Something is weird here. YOUR mails show as wrapped correctly: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2003-August/msg00002.html However, Aaron Epps' MUA has "helpfully" unwrapped your mail for you ;-) > And oh BTW for the people who think html emails are good, guess again. html > mail is not readable by all mua's It should be, it has more features. Including that if you quote back in the right way in a reply, HTML paragraphs should never get unintentionally broken up like text paragraphs do, like: > > blah blah foo blah > blah > > foo fo fum fee fi > fum which I find annoying. > is a security risk Not if you turn off (external/all) images and Javascript. > and is a waste of > bandwidth which matters if you have a metered account. The amount of bandwidth wasted due to a few <html>, <p> and <i> tags should be miniscule. Much more bandwidth is wasted by not compressing mails, but I don't see the anti-HTML-mail people complaining about that. ;) -- Robin "As an analyst I have to be able to argue both sides of a position because often we are asked to step in and help justify decisions that have already been made" -- Rob Enderle, revealing the true colours of rent-a-quote IT "analysts"
