On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, David Mayerlen wrote: > My final statement here opens up an interesting debate to which I think > most of you might have a hard time arguing against. > > I'd rather waste bandwidth than cut down more trees! True, but I would rather someone send me a URL, to which I can cut, and then run Netscape, paste, and view, than an HTML message that looks like a ton of garbage. Also, posting/mailing a URL is better because only those who want to see it, go visit it (save those poor little electrons from abuse), plus, you cut down on the bulk, and wasted time, bandwidth for those that don't, or can't read it anyways. HTML is e-mail is EVIL. For an average 10 line post to a list, we are talking about 2K of data in plain text. With HTML (even a mear text colour change) we are talking 10K. This is a 500% increase. Think of all the (basically) wasted disk space on the worlds computers for the pretty colours. Here is a good example: Here's a quote from news.software.nntp: "Well, an analysis of the past month's worth of Path: headers indicates that I received 14,989 unique pathhosts on my transit server. As you say, this probably isn't a useful statistic, but it certainly is eye-catching. This means that a single 2K article which is widely propagated takes up around 30GB of disk space around the world, and costs the net about $3500 in disk space. (``Hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars!'')" If this is what happens to a 2K message, can you imagine if all posts were 10+K in size. Tell that to anyone who says that HTML in mail doesn't cost anyone anything. The above doesn't include mailing lists that archive mail etc. Think of the impact before sending, or encouraging HTML in MAIL, not only will some not be able to read it, but it COSTS bigtime. .-----------------------------. ,-----------------------------------. | Pauline M. Marshall / / --= MightyMouse =-- | | [log in to unmask] / / http://www.logic.net/~mmouse/ | |--------------------------' `--------------------------------------| | I-Barc (Internet Beagle Aficianado Recreation Club) Listowner | | http://i-barc.logic.net/ | | SmallDogs (Small Dog Discussion List) Listowner | | http://www.cusd.claremont.edu/~corchard/smalldog.html | `--------------------------------------------------------------------'