HTML in Email

I really hate that HTML mail crap, too, and usually just delete it. I have little enough time, anyway, I don't want to waste it it in HTML unless I'm writing it. On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, John Wilson wrote: > >From: allisonp(a)world.std.com > > >Another pet peeve, posts/replies in html, I don't read them and dump them > >sumarily as A) they are often spam, B)the are a pain to handle via said > >slow telnet and pine. > > I have the same attitude, WHY do people think we would even want to see a > fancy schmancy version of what they typed as simple ASCII text, especially > when many of us read this list on simple ASCII terminals anyway so we can't > see any of the colors or misaligned columns. It's especially annoying when > a message contains the same text twice, once as text and once as HTML, so > at least half of the message is useless to *everyone*. I would *love*

> list servers could be set up to filter this crap out, or at the very least > run the HTML text through Lynx or something and translate it back to usable > 80-column ASCII. > > FWIW I'm not crazy about the new header format, when I replied to this msg > with "R" (I'm using Berkeley Mail) it would have gone to Allison only, and > when I changed to "r", the mailing list was only there as a Cc:, if I had > edited out the other recipients there would have been *no* primary

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