[OT] One more reason to ban HTML

[soltwede@privateI.com (Night Shadow)]

My pine version (4.10) has the ability to display basic HTML emails
normally...it was in the setup somewhere...

Eric

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Calimus wrote:

> Allyn,
> 
>     Thanks for pointing that out.  I was just getting ready to send him a
> carbon copy of what you just said.  And Jean, if they do get that restrictive,
> just let me know and I'll hook ya up with an e-mail account.
> 
> html e-mail is not a bad thing, it's just something that gets abused in some
> areas and then frustraits pine users in another area.  I'm a big fan of pine
> and use it a lot for some things and I know that reading an html e-mail in pine
> is a complete PITA.  But there are definitly some of you out there smart enough
> to add a html filter and recompile it.  That way, all you would get is the
> text.  I know this can be done, I just wish I knew how.  There has to be a
> programmer here in this motley crew with enough talent to do this.  Some make a
> filter that will parse out the e-mail tags and then remake a special distro of
> pine and send it to the list users who are effected by the scurge of html
> e-mail.  Then everyone can be happy.
> 
> just my $0.02
> 
> William
> 
> Allyn wrote:
> 
> > if the bandwidth restrictions are so stiff that you cant even receive html
> > email, your isp will surely go under. the average html email is only ~100
> > characters larger than the same text email (basically has an html header
> > added to it). multiply that by say 2000 emails over a months time (common
> > for the scirocco list), and you get a whopping extra 200kbytes downloaded.
> > That much bandwidth is transmitted for a single large picture. bandwidth
> > restrictions are usually for people that like to transmit full cds worth of
> > info over the net. if they end up messing with html email then we have big
> > problems.
> > Al
> >
> > Allyn Malventano, ETC(SS), USN
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> > driveshafts, wheels :)
> >
> 
> 
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