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I am pretty sure that doesn't work. While it works fine for me, the problem
with the other emailers isn't just that they can't interpret HTML, but that
they are not MIME compliant. So they do not correctly identify mime types to
select or ignore them.

If they did, then the users would never get the HTML junk. They'd just get a
brief message from their emailer saying the document contained something
they couldn't view.

That's the option I used to use, but I quit for the kinder, gently text
only.

Chris Rehm
javadisciple@earthlink.net
If you believe that the best technology wins the
marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.


----- Original Message -----
From: boothm@goddard.edu
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: HTML formatted email



What happens if we set our e-mail program to send plain and HTML?  Does that
create chaos too?

(this e-mail is being sent with that option checked in my preferences, so..
Is it OK for digest use?)


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Booth Martin, 802-454-8315 x235
Goddard College Information Services
http://www.Goddard.edu
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owner-midrange-l@midrange.com wrote on 07/20/2001 01:00:19 PM:

> In a message dated Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:22:56 -0400, "Boling, David E."
> <bolingde@co.rowan.nc.us> writes:
>
> >  I guess my first point is, that if you can't receive HTML mail you
already
> >  have a work around (stripper, reformat program, whatever) or otherwise
your
> >  not able to read a great deal (most?) of the email being sent in the
world
> >  already.
>
> My reader supports HTML but the list digester for this list (and seven
other
> lists
> I subscribe to) does not.  I subscribe to the digest version because it
> reduces
> my (high cost) connect time.  This list (and the other lists) ban HTML
> because:
>
> 1) HTML increases the size of e-mails from 3 to 15 times (take a look
> sometime)
> 2) A desire on the part of the list owner to make things simpler for
users.
> 3) Tools used to index, archive, search work better with plain text.
>
> >  We do broadcast TV programs to radio all the time, with is then
stripped of
> >  the images.  Much like  HTML being stripped of formatting for a text
user.
>
> The digest version is ALREADY GARBAGE because of HTML before I get it.
> No tool I could own would help.  Subscribe to the digest version for a
week
> and maybe you will FINALLY understand what everyone is saying!
>
> >  Which leads to my second point...We didn't stop TV from being used
because
> >  some people only had a radio.
>
> Yes, - but you did not insist on broadcasting the TV signal over radio
> frequencies
> so that radio owners got 8% sound and 92% snow, static, and garbage and
the
> tell them "You people are RADIO OPERATORS (programmers)  for goodness
sake!
> Don't get bogged down in the past. You have an obligation to stay at the
> bleeding edge. Surely you can solder up some circuits that will strip away
> all the stuff you don't want"
>
> The FAQ says no HTML, so no HTML.  Surely you can configure your email
> software not to send HTML to lists that request it.  You are, after all, a
> programmer, no?


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