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Re: html email
- From: Ethan Tira-Thompson <ejt at andrew dot cmu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:56:56 -0400
- Subject: Re: html email
- References: <1BBF464ECC68FB4AA7EF4AB997CC0731019084D8@NA-PA-VBE01.na.tibco.com> <5E05D746-7ECE-49FB-9FE2-BD2FEAAC9A8F@andrew.cmu.edu> <ecvqpo$5cm$1@sea.gmane.org>
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For instance, take a look at what happened here:
It also doesn't happen with non-broken mailers (in that case, I was
attempting to line wrap manually, which almost certainly has
something to do with it).
There must be a lot of broken mailers out there, because I see it
happen a *lot*. Very annoying when I search for some error message,
find a discussion on an archive, and can't read the quotes to follow
the discussion because everything is crazy-indented due to the word
wrapping at some arbitrary width while people are replying. It's
especially bad when code is involved, with literal '>'s in the mix.
...which, if several people are using it, on several lists, adds
up. Now add, say, 100 people per day downloading it, and now it's
several mb a day, about 100 mb a month, and now you're talking some
more significant numbers.
100mb a month still isn't significant. That's a *trickle*. But
fine, if everyone was doing it, it would double the mailing list
bandwidth usage. Maybe there are mailing lists that exceed my
imagination where that would be a problem.
And if it is a problem, and here's my original argument, *just strip
the html version*. The two alternative versions are explicitly
intended to be alternative versions, and only one is expected to be
displayed. So I claim it's unexpected to bounce the message. It
*is* expected to have one or the other shown. Dropping the message
altogether is at best unexpected, at worst rude and counter
productive, and in general, annoying.
-ethan