Re: HTML mail (was Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham)

2007-02-12 Thread John Rudd
Kelson wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Personally, I think HTML email should be outright discarded from the start. If you look at this arguement presented by the OP then it reinforces the idea that most ascii is ham and most html is spam. Therefore, reject delivery of all html based email. Or to b

Re: HTML mail (was Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham)

2007-02-12 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, February 12, 2007 12:50 PM -0800 Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In other words, what can adequately replace text/html in the non-plaintext multipart/alternative section such that HTML becomes irrelevant for legitimate uses? Microsoft Word? PDF? RTF? Any of those would be wor

Re: HTML mail (was Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham)

2007-02-12 Thread Kelson
Gene Heskett wrote: With all due respect, that's 100% BS. MIME was invented to handle the non-ascii stuff, and does it very well except for M$, who couldn't follow a std rule with a loaded 44 magnum stuck in Bills ear. 100% BS? So end-users don't like formatting in their messages? Email is

RE: HTML mail (was Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham)

2007-02-12 Thread Coffey, Neal
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 12 February 2007 13:27, Kelson wrote: >> Now, if you can come up with another markup language for formatting >> email... >> >> [...] >> * And you can get all the major email clients to use it for formatted >> composition instead of HTML (so end users can still ma

Re: HTML mail (was Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham)

2007-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 12 February 2007 13:27, Kelson wrote: >Tom Allison wrote: >> Personally, I think HTML email should be outright discarded from the >> start. If you look at this arguement presented by the OP then it >> reinforces the idea that most ascii is ham and most html is spam. >> Therefore, reject

HTML mail (was Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham)

2007-02-12 Thread Kelson
Tom Allison wrote: Personally, I think HTML email should be outright discarded from the start. If you look at this arguement presented by the OP then it reinforces the idea that most ascii is ham and most html is spam. Therefore, reject delivery of all html based email. Or to be more succinct