At 09:22 PM 2/12/99 -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>right now, I have a procmail front end that traps and returns this
>with a message.
I've also considered using the Majordomo "delete_headers" option
to boink the MIME line - all the stuff would be there, but it would
be ugly and might not be interpreted by a client??? If it works,
this would be a way to let people see what plain text clients see.
I'm already deleting some headers like "X-Juno-Line-Breaks" because
any software that adds a fronter (or header) to the message itself
breaks juno-to-juno email. I hate formatting stuff that's stuck in
using non-standard headers, and I hate it even more when a provider
makes it so you can't use list features without junking up the message.
>In reality, the e-mail world is changing, so that at some point, I'll
>be accepting HTML and MIME stuff on my lists. it's not my preference,
>but I can see this will be a reality.
>Just not yet, IMHO.
Right now it's more of an issue with people who can't view the message.
Same problem with unwrapped paragraphs - there are still mail clients
out there that will NOT wrap lines, so people only get to read the
first 80 characters of each paragraph. Ugh. I reluctantly went back to
hard-wrapping lines because of so many complaints.
Even if everyone could read it, allowing binary attachments is a good
way to waste bandwidth and distribute viruses. You want pretty? Get
a free website (like geocities) and post the URL. You want email?
Just send text. Of course, those people who attach both PC and Mac
Word documents after pasting in the plain text get really pissed off
when their post bounces... but if it doesn't bounce, the Unix people
get really pissed off at receiving TWO useless binary files. Sigh.
Now what about these "vcard.vcf" things? Anyone choosing to bounce
those? They look like attachments in Eudora, but they're really not.
Finally, has anyone played around with deleting attachments but
letting the plain text go through? Or would that be an ethical
problem of editing the user's post?
SRE
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