On Tuesday 03 May 2005 17:38, Covington, Chris wrote: > The bottom line is that on any technical mailing list, it's tradition > not to use HTML. You can't argue against it using technical reasons, > people aren't going to change their minds about it. And there might not > even be strong technical reasons for it anymore: just about all browsers > and email clients support HTML now, including pine and mutt, just about > everyone has a high-speed connection, servers have faster connections, > disks and capacity, etc. but it is the tradition. > > Heed the proverb "When in Rome..." - to challenge that tradition is to > go against community values.
not everybody has high speed, and some of the high speed users are having volume caps. So please, I like to waste my share of the monthy volume on downloading, not html-mails.... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
