Plain ASCII, was [Re: recursion]

Ralf Hinze ralf@informatik.uni-bonn.de
Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:21:26 +0200


Am Samstag, 23. August 2003 22:42 schrieb Jon Fairbairn:

> On 2003-08-23 at 20:14+0200 Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2003-08-21, 13:32, CEST, Keith Wansbrough wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > BTW: please post in plain ASCII, not HTML [...]
> >
> > Or post both, plain text and HTML, in combination. Users
> > of HTML-capable mail clients will be able to read your
> > mails formatted nicely while others will still see your
> > text without HTML tags.
>
> I for one would prefer plain text only. For one thing I
> access my email over a phone line, so the more than doubling
> of message size that multipart/alternative entails is
> unwelcome.
>
> For another, few (if any) of the html encoded emails I've
> seen are "formatted nicely". Either they look pretty much as
> they do with plain text, or the have poor choices of fonts
> or other questionable typographic design. Most of the time I
> find myself looking at the plain text version in preference.

I second this, Ralf