Feb. 14, 2002
5:26 a.m.
> From: Aaron Haviland <orion@tribble.dyndns.org>
> X-Ads: Reach my targeted audience. Buy this header today.
> X-Go-Away: or I shall taunt you a second time!
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> Frank Sweetser said:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:22:07AM -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote:
> > > ...or he could just configure it properly :-)
> >=20
> > It is configured properly, IMO. =20
> >=20
> > - Aside from the whole "email is TEXT goddamnit" argument (which I happe=
> n to
>
> i'm not saying that html emails are right. i hate 'em as much as
> everyone else.
No, you don't. You send Mime quoted-printable. We curmudgeons
would never do that. Ascii is the _American_ Standard Code for
Information Interchange. True patriots will reject subversive
substitutes.
> i just figure i may as well be able to view them. without having
> to complain about it. the ones that aren't spam, at least...
But there aren't any! I read mail with Emacs and anything that's
HTML gets the middle finger without more than 200 milliseconds
of reflex lag. (Middle finger is for D(elete).)
I have a few clueless friends who send multipart/alternative with
the same message in Ascii and HTML, but if it's pure HTML, it's
crap. Don't tell the Spammers, because it will slow down the
sorting if they start spamming in plain text, but don't send
HTML to me, I may never see it. The message that
started this thread may be the first time in my life I've seen
HTML email that wasn't obvious unquestionable spam.
If I were ambitious about procmail filtering I would not
hesitate to automate the trashing of it.
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