[thelist] Topica = Spam?

David Dorward evolt at david.us-lot.org
Sun Jan 25 08:51:27 CST 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 14:34, Toby Mills wrote:
> Why punish people for wanting to send an email with rich text features like
> colour, bold, underline and nicely inserted hyperlinks.

Because:

* Colour, bold and underline rarely add anything to the email
* Most email clients will automatically convert URIs to hyperlinks
* HTML formatted email typically uses at least 3 times more bandwidth
then regular email - I've seen messages going up to 10 times.
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David Dorward                                 <http://dorward.me.uk/>


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