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Line 31: HTML e-mail is larger than plain text. Even if no special formatting is used, there will be the overhead from the tags used in a minimal HTML document, and if formatting is heavily used it may be much higher. Multi-part messages, with duplicate copies of the same content in different formats, increase the size even further. Download speed was more of a concern in the 1990s, though, when most users were accessing email servers through slow [[modem]]s. On a modern connection, the difference in download time between plain text and mixed message mail, ~~which~~even though it can be a factor of ~~three~~ten or more, is negligible, especially when compared to images, music files, or other common attachments.<ref>[http://momentum.insertdisc.com/archives/2004/09/17/html_email_still_evil_part_1.html HTML Email — Still Evil?]</ref> Additionally, the plain text section of a multi-part message can be retrieved by itself, using [[IMAP]]'s FETCH command.<ref>[http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/mhtml-discussion.html Do we really want to send web pages in e-mail?]</ref>

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