[Mailman-Users] strip-mime and aol

[hotmail user]

I formated the mail with "infinately long lines" just to be pain in your tush. 
I use windows because it's what comes installed, not because it's any
better, but no other os has the availability of programs that windows does.
clueless
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fuzzy 
  To: hotmail user 
  Cc: mailman-users at python.org ; Rick Pasotto 
  Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 2:47 AM
  Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] strip-mime and aol




  On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, hotmail user wrote:

  >
  > Dear "Clueless",
  > You not answer question, either..
  > ha, ha!!
  >
  > Get real, Rickie, this is the 21st Century, HTML here to stay.  It's
  > called freedom to send email in whatever format I want.

  You seem to be unaware of the costs... text/html takes up 3x the space
  of text/plain. Its only readable by people running certain software,
  (meaning its not RFC821/RFC822 compliant, and can't be read by shell
  account users with normal shell mail programs). I don't know your
  financial situation, but I have limited resources for my client
  accounts and can't afford to store both a readable format (text/plain)
  and an unreadable format (text/html) in my archives.

  Personally, I don't like html email because it requires my extracting the
  text to a file and then running a text based web browser to view it.

  I suppose that if two people with the tools to view such an email, want to
  correspond via non-text email, that's thier business. For mailing list
  mail one has to insure the usablity of the information. To me that means
  text/plain format. I run stripmime for all my lists, and actually have not
  had problems with AOL's builtin email, (AOL 6.0 uses multipart/alternative,
  AOL 7.0 can be configured to send just text/plain and stripmime removes
  the non-plain parts, leaving just a text/plain part).

  I also noted, your email had infinately long lines. I guess
  Windows is really incapable of generating email with reasonable
  line lengths. *sigh*

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