Re: OFFLIST: No HTML, please
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 6, 2006, 4:03 |
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:43:55PM -0500, Paul Bennett wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:22:16 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
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> >I agree that HTML-only messages, or messages that can only be
> >understood in their HTML form, are clearly bad;
> > But multipart/alternative messages with a meaningful text/plain
> >alternate should be perfectly acceptable.
[...]
Agreed. If the text/plain alternate is of equivalent content, then I see
no major problem with HTML + text emails. As long as it's not like what
spammers do (provide an innocuous text/plain message to fool filters and
put the spam content in (obscured) HTML).
(Although personally, I never bother to read HTML mail.)
[...]
> I do agree with you in principle -- it's the users of older technology
> that need to adapt to new technology and not the other way around --
> my common sense tells me Henrik's closer to right on this matter. It's
> easier to prevent problems than to ask people to solve them
> themselves.
[...]
I think Henrik's approach, which I believe is inherited from previous
list owners, is a good balance.
T
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