RE: [Asrg] HTML-burdened E-mail

[gep2@terabites.com]

>The users want html formatted mail.

Most of them have no idea what that means.

The main reason so many users end up sending HTML-burdened E-mail is because 
they don't know any better, and because it is the default.

Most HTML-burdened E-mail generated by the VAST majority of users never use any 
of the formatting (or other such) features at all.  For all of those messages, 
the HTML-burdening only just makes the messages bigger without conveoying ANY 
more information.

>They do not want rfc plaintext. 

The GREAT majority of them (probably 95%) couldn't care less.

For the rest, if their recipient agrees to accept the bulkier HTML-burdened 
stuff, they can continue to use it without the slightest difficulty.

I believe that, given the choice, the overwhelming annoyance of spam, viruses, 
and worms is a FAR greater issue to virtually all legitimate users than HTML 
'benefits' are.  If more users realized how crucial HTML-burdened messages are 
to spammers, the users would gladly give up HTML.

>This problem cannot be solved by solutions that only work for geeks.

Sorry, but to suggest that plain ASCII text E-mail "doesn't work" for other than 
geeks is one of the more ludicrous arguments I've see in this thread so far... 
:-)


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