Frank Sweetser said:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:22:07AM -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote:
...or he could just configure it properly :-)
It is configured properly, IMO.
- Aside from the whole "email is TEXT goddamnit" argument (which I happen to agree with) have you seen some of the sludge that some of these mailreaders generate and label as HTML?
- If the sender's email app is set up properly, even if it is sending an HTML version it should at least have the courtesy to include a plain text version as well.
- I read my email through a web frontend ocasionally. I have it configured to only read the text portion of the message, because I'm usually using it from something other than my own machine, so I have no idea if it even has basic security precautions against HTML viruses/trojans/etc in place.
my web frontend consists of mindterm and ssh and mutt. i'm not saying that html emails are right. i hate 'em as much as everyone else. 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... -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] parsed [dot] net there is no escape from the kingdom of the mole people. except that