[Lazarus] Policy regarding HTML messages

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

+1 for all your points.

+ HTML mail is hard to read to me, for its unusual font and text size 
settings.

DoDi


Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> 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.
> 
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