Message formatting

Dan Townsend xybertron at cox-internet.com
Tue Nov 7 03:25:39 GMT 2000


From: "Don Burns" <donburns at macconnect.com>

> >> I'd support any filter that removes or converts HTML to plain text
> >> before it gets to my email client from GMECM! I'll even offer to write
> >> the Perl script to do it!
>
> I'll buy this. But the word to get out to all is that sending mixed text
> messages to any mail list is just plain RUDE. There are many, many of us
> who use the good olde text only readers like Eudora and the older Pines
and
> Elms. The mixed text does nothing but hog additional bandwidth and cause
us
> to search for the "real" message buried within the junk. Whatever happened
> to KISS?

AFAIK - They haven't had a CD in years.

> Emotional outburst off (click).
>
> Don

I think we all agree to use plain text so figure out how to get your mailer
to do that or be flamed...

Dan - Can we move on now?

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