No HTML here, please

[John L. Ries]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> John L. Ries wrote:
>
>> While the most commonly used mailers all support MIME, many people
>> still use ones that don't (I used to until I started getting so many MIME
>> messages I had to switch),
>
> BTW, supporting MIME is not the same as HTML. My mail client
> supports MIME, e.g. for attachments, or encryption/signature as
> OpenPGP/MIME. It can extract the HTML part, and in principle I could
> read it with a browser. But I have no intention to do so. In most
> (>>99%) cases, HTML doesn't add anything useful that can't be
> expressed in plain text (the remaining few cases, e.g. discussion
> about a particular layout element of the web pages, though these
> should rather go to gpc-doc, could use an explicit HTML attachment,
> which is not the same as a multipart message, stating in the message
> why HTML is attached). Far more often, HTML causes problems or
> contains some kind of malware.
>
> Frank
>
I stand corrected.  The malware issue, of course, is one of the reasons 
why stupid e-mail clients are preferable to smart ones.

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