Re: [MLUG] HTML Coding on Mailing List

[yoda <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Wow, it would appear that I'm the only one who doesn't really care what format
the emails are in -- and yes, I ssh in and use pine. I know html well enough
that I can make it through, and I'm used to mucking through strange formats
looking for the info I need (want) anyway.

>    [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.
> >
> > 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...

--
To unsubscribe, go to http://mlug.missouri.edu/members/edit.php

Archives are available at http://mlug.missouri.edu/list-archives/