RE: [MLUG] HTML Coding on Mailing List

["Pepper, Mike" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This is being sent from Outlook 2000, over Exchange 2000. umsystem.edu
I went into tools > options > Mail Format  in the send the message in this format, I selected plain text for the drop down box.
I hope that this gets it into plain text.
and can help all how are bound to exchange.

Mike

Mike Pepper
System Support Analyst
UM Procurement Services
(573) 882-5052
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-----Original Message-----
From: King, Jonathan W. 
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 04:11 PM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: Re: [MLUG] HTML Coding on Mailing List



On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Mark Rages wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:24:00PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
>
   [on the evils of HTML encoding of email, concurring with Neil 
    Bradshaw...]

> > I say, along with Neil -- turn off the html unless you need it.  It's
> > mostly just a way to add useless garbage to a message.
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> Is there a technical solution to this problem? Have the mailing
> list software discard the html part of multipart emails, and
> "lynx -dump" the HTML-only emails.
> 
> All we would lose is the gratuitous "formatting".

An easier solution might be to bounce the message back to the sender
asking for a text only version.  That might sound unfriendly, but
I'm guessing that this would only happen at most a couple of times
per sender before all relevant email client configuration issues
were solved. :-)  For 10 seconds I  worried about the possibility 
that people would be missing certain included links, until I 
realized that even pine can deal with those...

jking


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