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RE: [TCLUG:6307] thanks
Well, I've looked at quite a few of the headers when people send
HTML-based e-mail to the list, and most of them are from Outlook, Outlook
Express, or Microsoft Mail. The reason is because they don't make it
obvious they are sending html mail.. not like Netscape, where you pick
every time, or have to go manually set a default.
Also, Netscape does a good job of formatting the html e-mail. Microsoft
uses non-standard headers and such, so that Pine (my e-mail reader of
choice) has to spawn an external viewer to view the text-encoded portion
of the e-mails sent by Microsoft products. In the e-mails sent by
Netscape, I can just hit 'v' and view the text-encoded e-mail.
And anyways, the point is not that it is a 'Linux mailing list', the point
is that it is a mailing list. It's just polite never to send html-encoded
e-mail to a mailing list.
----
Nate Carlson
the infinite loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Larry Greenwald wrote:
> Excuse me, but what the H--- does using or not using HTML have to do with
> the fact that this is a Linux mailing list??? The copy of Netscape that I
> am using on my Linux machine has the option to send e-mail in HTML format.
> Why do people automatically assume that it was a Microsoft product that sent
> HTML?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nate Carlson [mailto:natecars@infiniteloop.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 3:30 PM
> > To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:6307] thanks
> >
> >
> > I think you should set up a filter (make sure it returns the message to
> > them, though). It gets _very_ annoying.
> >
> > ----
> > Nate Carlson
> > the infinite loop
> > natecars@infiniteloop.com
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Bob Tanner wrote:
> >
> > > Quoting Eric Gjerde (gjerde@mn.mediaone.net):
> > >
> > > <html email cut>
> > >
> > > So, should I put a MIME filter into qmail that will reject
> > emails with MIME
> > > types of html/text?
> > >
> > > I have received 24 email messages today to the list that are
> > html messages,
> > > since this is a linux mailing list :-) These rogue MTUs like Outlook,
> > > Exchanged, etc should be configured to use plain text or get the boot?
> > >
> > > Comments?
> > >
> > > --
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