Am Samstag, 23. August 2003 22:42 schrieb Jon Fairbairn:
On 2003-08-23 at 20:14+0200 Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
On Thursday, 2003-08-21, 13:32, CEST, Keith Wansbrough wrote:
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BTW: please post in plain ASCII, not HTML [...]
Or post both, plain text and HTML, in combination. Users of HTML-capable mail clients will be able to read your mails formatted nicely while others will still see your text without HTML tags.
I for one would prefer plain text only. For one thing I access my email over a phone line, so the more than doubling of message size that multipart/alternative entails is unwelcome.
For another, few (if any) of the html encoded emails I've seen are "formatted nicely". Either they look pretty much as they do with plain text, or the have poor choices of fonts or other questionable typographic design. Most of the time I find myself looking at the plain text version in preference.
I second this, Ralf