HTML in emails

[Tom Thomson]

I think Ian that you are perhaps unaware of the horrors perpetrated by 
some user agents when it is permitted to transmit email in html - it's not 
unusual to see a 20 line message (maybe 1.25 kbytes in plain text format) 
take up 12.5 kbytes in html.

I suppose a rule that people don't send abominable html would be too 
subjective.

Mìcheal

Sgrìobh Ian Batten:

> By a strange co-incidence, I was comparing the size of the header with
> the size of the body in some ukcrypto postings last night.  It's
> routine for the header to be more than twice the size of the body by
> the time it arrives in my Cyrus instance.  That some items of mail
> replicate the content seems a minor crime, especially as I doubt if
> cam.ac.uk is short of bandwidth.
>
> But if we want to agree that ukcrypto is plain text only, let's do
> it.  But it seems that fighting the pointless battles of the 1990s
> again is pretty futile.