What's with the raw HTML? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Mar 1998

At 06:23 PM 3/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
...
 need for a company to have a fancy letterhead, nor a
mass mailer to have
colored brochures, nor ladies to have flowered and/or scented stationery,
yet we do have all these things, and more.  Consider how boring text-only, 
Note that for most of these, there is no difference to the recipient.  It
doesn't take any longer to open a color brochure than one in black and
white, logos don't take up any more space than the text, etc.  In terms of
e-mail, it's completely different.  Those logos do take up space, color
stuff does take longer to download.  (And btw, there are a lot of people
who are very allergic to the scented ads included with Macy's bills, and
even a fair number of us who just get nauseated.)

...
 not trivial point.  Nevertheless, technology marches
on, and as cable modems
(or whatever) become the norm rather than the exception, "waste" of 
Really?  As of last fall, 80% of americans accessed the net at 14.4Kbps or
less.  (According to a speaker at the Bay Area Internet Users Group.)  Add
in the rest of the world and that goes way down.  Damn yanks, always
thinking nobody else matters!

...
 public at large. If my wife wants to embed scanned
newspaper clippings or a
kid's picture in an email to her cousin across country, who am I (or anyone)
to object? 
That's a different matter.  If I send an e-mail to a potential client
touting my services, that's one thing.  To send a message selling used golf
balls to every e-mail address I can find, that's spam.

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