On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 17 November 2008, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: Q: List Policy': > >Perhaps we need one of the listmasters to enforce the usage > >guidelines? Post HTML or Cc: too often, and ... > > > >Nah. Dumb idea. > > Well, there has to be some punishment for not following the rules, or > people won't follow them, right? > > It would be nice for the list to auto-respond to any HTML posting with > a "You've posted HTML, which is against list policy, please configure your > client to send plain text email." message. Following that notice would be > instruction on how to do this for various clients, and instructions for > who to email with corrections if the instructions are wrong or incomplete.
I used to be rabid about plain text emails (and still use pine), but are there really email clients out there which can't handle multi-content emails (pine now deals OK with html mail)? Are there clients sending emails which don't offer the alternative content (plain or html)? I know gmail sends both, and I think it does so in a standards-compliant way. I think this may be a battle lost. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
