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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: For The Record: HTML Email on the Internet; RFC 2557 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:53:43 -0700 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3E960407.2030603@Salira.com> References: <5 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20030410160138 DOT 024b4998 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> <019a01c2ffb8$adbd39c0$b454893e AT pomello> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh Max Bowsher wrote: > 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. I disagree with that assertion. I have not see HTML mail used in such a way tha tit detracts fromt he content of the message. Can you cite some examples of this? -- 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/