- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:48:27 -0800
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "robert@ocallahan.org" <robert@ocallahan.org>, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com> wrote: >> I suspect that web archives of HTML emails aren't a very important >> use >> case here. If they're advertisements, then they might break, but >> that's >> ok because how many people really want to view web archives of email >> advertisements? If they're written by people, then chances are they >> aren't that dependent on the exact font size since the vast majority >> of people writing email just use flowed text and not fancy layouts. > > I'm a bit puzzled why would email advertisements would come into mind > here. When email archives are mentioned I think of mailing list > archives, with the not-so-just-occasional HTML mail that got sent. I > think we're talking about mailing list postings here, and nothing to > do with advertisements. > -- > cheers, > -ambrose For what it's worth, there are many things sent out in laid out HTML that a person might want to reference later from their Web mail client besides advertising. A couple that come to my mind are informative newsletters and banking alerts.
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