On Mon, Oct 7, 2013, at 07:39 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Travis Biehn <tbiehn@gmail.com> wrote:
This isn't the mailing lists job; it is your clients job. If you don't want to see HTML email then use a client that can't / won't interpret it.
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.
If senders do not do that, there are four options: flame them to a crisp (off-list, please!), let every reader handle it, remove the HTML at the server, or set the server to drop such messages entirely. I'd prefer the last, with an appropriate bounce message,
I think the third option is a reasonable compromise. I have reluctantly began to tolerate some HTML mail since I am doing some marketing research and consulting. But on a list like this, I agree, cute pink bunny backgrounds, funny fonts, and a number of other silly things that HTML mail allows don't belong. For that matter I can't think of one good reason to allow HTML mail. I can think of plenty of bad reasons though... -- Shawn K. Quinn skquinn@rushpost.com