Re: HTML'ed mail

[shed: bike] On 2013-10-08, at 02:57, Karel Bílek wrote:

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On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Gregory Foster wrote:

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On 10/7/13 7:54 PM, Al Billings wrote:

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Get off my lawn!

(top posted, of course!)

-- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org

On Monday, October 7, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:

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It is the sender's job. No-one should be sending such stuff to a public list since it serves no useful purpose. If your client won't send clean ASCII-only email, then switch to a client that will.

May I propose an inductive hypothesis, akin to Godwin's Law[1]:

As time passes on any email list configured to accept HTML email, the probability of the occurrence of the[2] HTML/ASCII email conversation approaches 1.

gf

[1] Wikipedia - "Godwin's Law" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

[2] Note the intentional use of "the" to signify a singular conversation, as the substance of this conversation is always the same, though the outcome depends wholly on the constitution of any particular list's constituents.

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