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Re: A newbie's first question



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There are several reasons for this:

1) HTML has a high data overhead. If on the road, or paying a /minute
fee, and subscribing to many newsgroups, that adds up to real money.

2) Malicious code can be included in the HTML message.

3) Imbedded requests in HTML can force long downloads.

4) Newsgroup and e-mail is for information transmission, not
flourishes.


On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 22:46:53 -0800, <Bill-Irwin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When I reply to a message in text that's
> what I send.  Is there a problem with HTML messages?