[A83] Re: html mail
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[A83] Re: html mail
And, html just doesn't make sense. It's mostly principle(principly?) to me.
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:11:20 +0100, Patai Gergely
<patai_gergely@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> Consider a 3KB file, 1.5KB of which consists of the mail header. With
>> HTML mail making the message 4.5KB, we have effectively increased
>> download
>> time by 0.375 seconds on a 56K modem. Since you can read messages as
>> they
>> download, don't pull the claim that it is 0.375 more seconds per message
>> of waiting time.
> It's a wild assumption that an HTML mail has the same size as a plain
> text message. Often they are as optimised as if they had been generated
> by MS Word... Anyway, it's just not fun having to read HTML code in
> mutt/pine/whatever I use.
>
> PG
>
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