> 1) some email clients sent simultaneous straight ASCII AND HTMLized text:
> the recipients certainly don't need to receive both

and two more to Pete's list of whynots.. some systems still charge by the byte .. so
recievers have to pay cold hard cash for all that extra

some providers limit space.. so a 1 meg email [like was sent with an attatchment
through a fellow listserv listowner's list recently] can really clog up a subscriber's
system big time.

An interesting file titled "What is wrong with sending HTML and MIME messages?"

can be accessed via
 http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/nomime.html

    . ..Cleo  [log in to unmask]
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