HTML'ed mail

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at rushpost.com
Mon Oct 7 17:51:33 PDT 2013


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013, at 07:39 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Travis Biehn <tbiehn at 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 at rushpost.com



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