RE: Mangling of mails
> (Why someone wants to send both HTML and plain text version of an
email
is beyond me ...)
It's so that people with text-only e-mail viewers can still read the
e-mail without all the garbage. I guess it's not working...
~Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: jbrown1050 at hotpop.com [mailto:jbrown1050 at hotpop.com]
Subject: Re: Mangling of mails
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:46:01PM +0100, Juergen Luethje wrote:
>
> Concerning spreading viruses by mail, HTML and attachments carry the
> highest risk. I think attachments sometimes can be useful on this
list,
> but from my point of view, HTML-mail could be completely banned.
> I think this can be checked by a program and handled appropriately,
> without cutting off lines of the text.
I think that MIME as multi-part attachements are a bad idea.
I.e. have both text and html versions of the message in the same email.
While this is not as big a risk for viruses perhaps (tho it could be,
since there is HTML in the email), it just plain wastes bandwidth.
Hence my modifed signature, which has the '*' in it, and is also against
"unneeded MIME" - MIME is good for file attachements, not so good for
multipart
emails. (Why someone wants to send both HTML and plain text version of
an email
is beyond me ...)
>
> >> Not amused,
> >> Juergen
> >>
> > Second, either,
> >
> > -- Euler
Third,
jbrown
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