[Gllug] Email Formats

[Stig Brautaset]

* Paul Brazier <pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk> spake thus:
> > On , 22 Nov 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > > I've made them several times, very clearly. Agree or not, I don't
> > > care, but the world has uses for tables in emails (for example),
> > > people need HTML mail functionality, and that's why it's so
> > > successful. 
> > 
> > You canot be serious. Whether or not people need it, it's successful
> > largely because OE makes it easy to send without knowing it.
> 
> Is there any real difference between <b>this<b> and *this*?  One is
> standard HTML markup the other is a "de-facto" standard that has
> evolved.  You see people invent their own markup all the time e.g.
> <rant> or <voice:style = whisper> or whatever.  Even "emoticons" could
> be seen as markup I suppose.  I guess the problem is people overdoing
> it or automated tools overdoing it for you.
> 
> A lot of people don't even realise they're sending HTML email.

This is nearly *too* true. Several of the people in my class send me
html mail all the time, after me repeatedly asking them to stop. They
send me a message back (in html) saying "Ok, I have turned it off now"
or something to that effect. Don't know if they do it to piss me off or
not, but I don't really care. I have the following lines in my
.procmailrc to save me from the nightmare:

# Filter out evil html, and leave a message that it is filtered.
# I am forever grateful to Bart Schaefer for this one.
:0
* ^Content-Type: text/html
{
	:0bfW:
	| (echo "[html stripped]"; lynx -dump -force_html -stdin)
	:0ahfw:
	| formail -i"Content-Type: text/plain"
}

Some might remember me posting it here before, but any newcomers might
find it useful :) 

The good thing about it is that the output from lynx -dump gives you a
list of the links in the original html-thingie and references to where
in the text they occur. Nifty.

Regards,
Stig

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