[sdiy] Test

[Andre Majorel]

On 2011-11-06 07:48 +0000, Paul Maddox wrote:

> > In quite a few cases in the past it has been down to the
> > email client configuration: this list server does not accept
> > emails in HTML format - they must be plaintext.
> 
> Wow, that's positively draconian, why?

Email has always been text. In the nineties, some email clients
gained an HTML rendering engine. Users of such email clients
often assume that all others do but that's not the case. Mine
doesn't.

HTML email is bloated and hard to grep. If you have a text
mailer, it's hard to read. If you have an HTML mailer, it's a
security risk. For what gain ? From what I've seen, it's mostly
used to impose your choice of fonts and colours on your readers.

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André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/