[Gllug] re: HTML Mail

[Christopher Hunter]

On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 7:49 am, t.clarke wrote:
> Sorry to add another tuppence worth .....
>
> People like me (admittedly probably rare) who receive their mail on dumb
> 'green screens' find that HTML mail is almost unreadable - the text being
> obscured by zillions of tags.  For us, the extra kilobytes of junk may not
> be a major problem; although if everyone sent us HTML mail we would need to
> increase the bandwidth of our internet connection to at least double !
>
> Surely the function of a mailing list is to exchange information/knowledge
> etc; not to paint pretty pictures on other peoples screens ?!
>
> Stripmail sounds very interesting - does it leave base64 attachments intact

Anything that contains an html tag gets immediately put into the spam folder 
here!  Also anything with a .pif attachment or multiple filename extensions 
(like .zip.exe) gets bounced - I'm really fed up with these silly attempts to 
send Windoze trojans.

Chris

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