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This was an excellent summary on plain-text vs html. Could something like this be automatically sent to new subscribers? Cheers, Scott M2 http://www.dreamSTATE.to ambientelectronicsoundscapes http://www.THEAMBiENTPiNG.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Flint [mailto:kflint@loopers-delight.com] > Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 10:45 PM > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Re: Posting in the tiniest print possible > > > At 06:53 PM 5/20/2005, Gary Lehmann wrote: > >Was in HTML and tiny print--it should be noted that whenever > possible, one > >should post in Plain Text--that wot Kim likes and he owns the joint. > >Altho many do not--but it's that tiny print that gives me pause. > > It isn't about what I like or don't like. Using plain text to post to > mailing lists has been considered good internet etiquette since the > beginning of time. Using html has long been considered > impolite. So it is > really about whether you are being a dick to the list or not. > > The reasons are many: > > - There are many different people on a list using many different mail > reading programs. These handle html formatting in many > different ways. It > is very likely that the nice formatting on your screen looks > terrible for > many other subscribers, or is completely unreadable. In some > cases, the > non-standard html code used by some popular email programs > even causes > errors in other programs trying to read it. > > - html formatted emails are used by hackers and spammers for > a variety of > evil purposes, to infect and spy on people. For this reason, > many prudent > people turn off the html features of their mail reading > program. This means > it is further likely that your html mail will look weird on > other people's > screen. > > - html formatting can screw up the digest versions of mailing > lists, making > the digest hard or impossible to read for many people, even > screwing up > other people's nice plain text posts. > > - Also, some people's email programs will view the digest as > plain text, > and your mail will just look like html code for them. Most > people won't > bother to try to read your html code and just skip over it. > > - html formatting adds at least 3 times more crap to your > email for the > html code. (sometimes waaaayyyy more than that, I've seen a > few sentences > turn into 200k emails.) This pointlessly wastes bandwidth and > disk space > for EVERYBODY on the list, not just me and my server. Not > everybody on the > list has a fast connection or unlimited email disk space. > > - The extra html code means the digest gets sent out > prematurely since you > hogged up all the space, further irritating digest readers. > > - And for all the headaches caused, the html formatting adds > no useful > content that wasn't already there with the plain text! > > kim > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com > >