Re: [Fsfe-uk] Administrivia: html duplicates

[Jon Grant]

Hi.

Chris Croughton wrote on 26/01/08 14:47:
[...]
>   bandwidth of the mail server
>   bandwidth of recipients
>   mailbox size on servers
>   mailbox size in user stored mailboxes
>   time to load mailboxes

I don't think bandwidth is really an issue these days. Most 
considerations went out the window, like Memory usage and Disc space. Re 
bandwidth, you are running mutt on your mail server? If so you wouldn't 
be downloading locally.

I don't think there is any noticeable difference in Thunderbird loading 
my mailbox or email msg which are in HTML (CPU increases in last decade 
eliminated any conversion time cost). Perhaps this is just mutt "not 
being very good"? ;) If it is, why not just swithc to a "better" client?

So I think we shouldn't be forced to keep the list non-HTML on the basis 
of certain text-based email clients which are slow and not in such 
common usage... (Am I going to get flamed!?)

Cheers, Jon