From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: off-topic? Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 05:08:56 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051931413 31048 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 03:10:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 03:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 05:10:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BnPZ-00084N-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 05:10:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BnPm-0004xg-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 23:10:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-192-071.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-192-071.arcor-ip.net (145.254.192.71) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051931385 14673307 145.254.192.71 (16 [87814]) X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6;Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m0iGcfrEa0/n3ic9FJ5n3MNd6BM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112703 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9198 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9198 "Roodwriter@core.com" writes: [...] > And there are people that lament the additional usage of bandwidth just to > make the message colorful. I don't find this argument compelling but I do > have security concerns. It becomes compelling as soon as your only access to the internet is a connection that is supposed to be 56k but most of the time crawls with about 30k, and you receive about 50 to 70 mails per day, and the majority of that mail contains html or html+text, with full quotes, that are between 3 to 10 times larger than necessary. I don't find the securety argument compelling. Whatever bad script there may be contained in the HTML, it has to be interpreted to do any harm and my mailreader is well educated and doesn't do bad things[1]. Another thing for which I detest 99% of all the HTML mails is the idea that it is a good thing to force a specific font at a specific size in a specific color with a specific background on me. *I* know best what is good for my eyes. Noone else does. That is not to say that I wouldn't welcome some syntactic markup language that would provide something like

,

, ,
    ... etc. But not much more. Something like an extended text/enriched, but text/enriched itself is a bit too poor ... > I also don't know if there are other Linux e-mail programs that > allow you to send HTML mail. Some of the others I looked at didn't > appear to. But things change and my distribution is a year old. [...] Mozilla? Oliver Footnotes: [1] Just don't set `gnus-auto-eval-lisp-snippets' to t, if you use Gnus. -- 14 Floréal an 211 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!