[JDEV] HTML Mail

[Michael Brown]

> Do not send HTML mail to this list. If you persist in doing so, I will
> remove you. The following are some recent offenders:
>
> huaxiaotao at NOSPAM.tomosoft.com
> raymond.j.veit at NOSPAM.boeing.com
> tcoffin at NOSPAM.asg.bellsouth.net
> creativeshri at NOSPAM.yahoo.co.in
>
> And yes, I'm nice enough to modify your email addresses so that spammers
> won't find you in the archives. Now please be nice enough to modify your
> email software so I can read your posts. :)
>
> Thanks!

Why?  Peter, if you are going to provide a request with a good reason
attached, it is going to make people much more likely to comply rather than
issuing a demand with a threat attached.

Anyway. surely you can configure Mailman to strip HTML if it really bothers
you.  HTML mail is just as much as a standard as ASCII I would have
thought - if your mail reader can't deal with it, maybe it is time to
upgrade, rather than demanding everyone else reconfigure their clients.

After all "change clients" is the only response I got when I was trying to
figure out how to stop Outlook Express displaying mail from
whatever-cursed-client sends all those PGP messages to the list that show up
as .txt file attachments.  (If I want to read them I have to open each one
up in Notepad...)

Michael