HTML in Email

From: Peter Pachla <peter.pachla_at_wintermute.org.uk>
Date: Sun Feb 6 13:43:07 2000

Hi Sean,

>> Sheesh. Plain text really sucks. Y'all prefer that someone type _like
>>this_ to indicate a piece of underlined text? or my habit *bolding* with
>>asterisks? This message "encoded" with HTML is roughly 5% larger than it
>>is in plain text. Wow, now that's a waste of resources.

Where did this quote come from? I've not seen this message, is my ISP losing
mail for me again? :-(

And to whoever actually wrote the above, where on earth did you get that
figure of 5% from? HTML encoded messages are pretty much *100%* bigger than
plain text messages - such messages contain TWO copies of the text, one in
plain ASCII, one in HTML.

Oh, and _YES_ I *personally* prefer the use of "_" and "*" to emphasise
text....


  TTFN - Pete.

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