[JDEV] HTML Mail

[Jamin W. Collins]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:44:08PM +1000, Michael Brown wrote:

> 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.

HTML e-mail is *far* from a standard.  There are several reason not to
use it not a single reason to use it.  HTML e-mail bloats the size of
any message to at lease double (unless you send HTML only, which is even
worse).  Beyond that it is very prevalent mechanism for spread viruses
and other malignant items.  There is no good reason to use HTML in
e-mail.  Anything and everything that can be conveyed in an HTML e-mail
can be conveyed in plain-text and other formats as well if not better.

> 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...)

That is a flaw in Outlook Express, not with the message being sent.
This is a cause of comparing Apples and Oranges.

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Jamin W. Collins