[Lazarus] Policy regarding HTML messages

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 26/08/12 00:10, Martin wrote:
>
> IMHO that rule should be seen as an ancient relict (so long as mails are

* HTML emails add no "extra" to a conversation. Plain text does the job 
perfectly.

* Multi-part mails just take up more space. Internet bandwidth and disk 
space.

* Even setting your email client (I use Mozilla Thunderbird) to prefer 
plain text in a multi-part message, the HTML part shows up as an 
attachment. A huge annoyance for me when I search for important message 
that had valid (read "real") attachments.

* Not all HTML message are equal. Mozilla Thunderbird tends to generate 
ok HTML, but other email clients like Outlook etc create the most 
hideous and verbose HTML code ever seen!

* HTML is plain text obfuscation

* Multi-part HTML messages mess with the various mailing list archives. 
Some try and strip the HTML part, others don't etc.


I can go on...


G.