On 7 Mar 2001, at 13:35, John Neale wrote:
> >Rumor has it that AOL has posted instructions on the web on how
> >to make AOL 6.0 send plain text messages. In my mind this is
> >a good thing because it now permits AOL customers to once again
> >send commands to the ListProc command processor that Cornell University
> >uses.
>
> I'm left scratching my head wondering why system administrators feel unable
> or unwilling to put a filter on the front end which will convert HTML
> encoded text to plain text. It's not hard.
Just to make clear, it *IS* hard. It is not hard to unwrap the MIME
sections and hack away the HTML tags and let the devil take the hindmost,
but it is close-to-awful to actually try to do something reasonable with
the HTML and have it come out looking like an ASCII representation of
what the poster intended [cf <TABLE>, <FRAMESET>, and friends].
But maybe that's OK: if folk see that their carefully crafted 142K of
HTML comes out looking like an incoherent mess of plain-text, perhaps
they'll do something different next time...
/Bernie\
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