[image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Gregory Foster <gfoster@entersection.org>wrote:
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On 10/7/13 7:54 PM, Al Billings wrote:
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:
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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