Re: The posting of HTML format messages to this List!!!!

["Brent Scriver" <bscriver@speakeasy.org>]

Interesting.  Then it must be more the behaviour of the clients then because
usually clients send a text/plain version of what they have in addition to
any other formats (defined under multipart/alternative to support multiple,
progressively more formatted views).  So it sounds like it really is a
client thing where you end up deleting email simply because one of those
alternative streams contains html tags.  If anything it would be the client
that prevents you from indicating you only want to look at the text/plain
stream and ignore the rest.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duquette, John" <john.duquette@eds.com>
To: "Netfilter" <netfilter@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:52 AM
Subject: RE: The posting of HTML format messages to this List!!!!



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Earnshaw [mailto:tonni@billy.demon.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 09:59 AM
> To: Daniel Elías Robles
> Cc: Netfilter
> Subject: Re: The posting of HTML format messages to this List!!!!
>
>
> tir, 2002-06-11 kl. 14:40 skrev Daniel Elías Robles:
>
> > unsubscribing from the list until this thread is over ( one
> more time)
> > Can we finish this once for all?
> > Will try back in three weeks
>
> What a lot of strange people there are on this list.
>
> "Strange" discounting people like Ramin and Antony (not to
> speak of the core team and Oskar'en min), who seem to work
> their arses off for us all, and then they get this thread. I dunno.
>
>
> My Ximian Evolution handles html and ASCII and doesn't care.
> Itself it sends ASCII, though it does use 8 bit. html spam
> and all viri from those who send it gets chucked into the bit
> bucket automatically.
>
> Lists like OpenOffice.org, to which I subscribe, where 90% of
> the people who contribute use MS Outlook / Outlook Express
> (because they *have* to, because their firms/organizations
> *force* them to), would be chicaned until they went and
> hanged themselves, had they contributed to this particular list.

Hardly true.  I work for a company that forces me to use MS Outlook
and it is a trivial setting to send mail in plain text.  People don't
because its easier to leave it be.

This is a technical list.  A large number of subscribers probably use
TEXT based email applications (Elm, Pine and Mutt come to mind)
therefore out of courtesy to them, and to the digest readers, it is
not too hard to send in ascii.  After all, they might even know the
answer to your question.

Personally, I could care.  All the email apps I use just remove html
formatting, yes even outlook and I have to admit, I greatly prefer to
see my mail without the pretty pictures and fonts.



> Is that what rpjday@mindspring.com wants?
>
> Would have thought that people here who claim the nouse for
> themselves to act as security bods could do the same? Not
> errupt in tantrums?
>
> Well well.
>
> Best,
>
> Tony
>
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