[OT] HTML mails

[Mateus Cordeiro Inssa]

David Ford writes:
 > As to the bloating of HTML, I find the plentiful signatures and 
 > additional headers added to an email body to often match or outweigh the 
 > rich text markup.  Do keep in mind that I refer to intelligent/efficient 
 > markup and pigs will fly (of their own accord) before I condone the 
 > disgusting abuse that some email clients make...read MS Outlook.
 > 
 > Consider that my style would typically have something like the following:

  Now, just think as a list owner. 2000 subscribers. 1k message costs
2M bytes to send. Your message was over 2k (plain text), so should cost
4 M. The HTML version _can_ double the cost, even triple (remember those 
clients that send plain text + HTML). Oh, that small message cost 12M
to be sent..... Now imagine that other subscribers want to send mails to
the list too .... (Uh, I almost forget, there is the traffic of the smtp
protocolo too, it is low, but when the multiplier is high ....)

  Not everyone has lots of megabytes of bandwidth to waste.

Mateus Cordeiro Inssa
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Wed Aug 15 20:42:30 EST 2001