Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <019a01c2ffb8$adbd39c0$b454893e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , "Randall R Schulz" References: <5 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20030410160138 DOT 024b4998 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> Subject: Re: For The Record: HTML Email on the Internet; RFC 2557 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:26:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Randall R Schulz wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > The IETF publishes this standard for electronic mail on the Internet > using HTML and even supports resource references in the HTML whose > targets (images, sounds, etc.) can be incorporated into the same MIME > message as the HTML body. > > In my opinion, it's simply foolish to anchor electronic mail in the > pre-markup, pre-media days of text-only electronic communication. There's nothing wrong with HTML mail when used tastefully and in a way which enhances communication. Unfortunately, a lot (most?) of the time, HTML mail is used in such a way that it detracts from the content of the message and is simply a needless bandwidth sucker. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/