On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:50:18PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > José María Mateos wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 02:56:35PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> Some considerate organisation has been sending me MIME mails with > >> content in a text/html section and a wholly blank text/plain version. > >> What I see in mutt is the blank text/plain. Who on Earth thought a > >> blank text/plain section was somehow a good idea? > > [I know, I know, I'm answering a rhetorical question.] > > I suspect one likely group would be the companies who depend > on advertising revenue. With HTML, they can stuff tracking > (whether direct like hidden pixels or indirect by changing > any URLs in the message to go through their servers. Those > things aren't very useful in text/plain, so shipping a blank > part just forces many folks to view the text/html.
Or hit "d" and move on to a readable message. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu
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