> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:01 -0600, Chris Augustine wrote: > > All, > > > > I have just installed Fedora, 3 and the installation was very smooth, > > but when I try to boot it always stops at configuring kernel > > options... any pointers? > > Please don't post in html. Read this for more info: > http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml > yeh - and we're still stuck with 8.3 filenames! when will we learn... The 7 sins 1. HTML e-mail is dangerous Both plain text and HTML mail may carry malware attachments >>so neither of them wins 2. HTML e-mail wastes bandwidth message body is duplicated, once in plain text and once in HTML >>that's good so we can all read them with our favourite email reader 3. HTML e-mail doesn't always work Some popular e-mail readers (e.g. Pegasus) simply don't read HTML mail >>that must be a bug their softare which they will fix rapidly if they expect anyone to get any enjoyment from them. 4. HTML e-mail can connect to the internet by itself If you're off-line, opening an HTML email cantaining images may (by default) open a connection to the internet. >>That's good so you get to see the image! 5. HTML e-mail renders slowly Some mail apps (e.g. Outlook) can slow down considerably when rendering HTML. >>But you upgrade your PC regularly to a faster CPU right? 6. HTML e-mail is not always reader-friendly HTML allows the sender to use unreadably small or non-standard fonts, clashing colours, badly formatted images and sometimes there is no quick or easy way for the reader to adjust the appearance to THEIR choice. >>clashing colors!!! heavens no --- where are the design police when you need them. 7. Digested lists hate HTML mail Subscriber lists, particularly those with a digest, discourage and sometimes block HTML >>and good thing too - then noone can complain about getting html in the digests. So they will all block html soon and be able to extract just the duplicated plain text to lower bandwidth. Alan
