Andy Carvin wrote:
(snip) People are repeat offenders (snip) even if they switch it, they soon switch back to html (snip) Another concern (snip) free webmail clients overseas that don'tSo it looks like it can't be fixed at the place where emails are being initiated. And it seems crazy for you to have to intervene in a time wasting way. And yet sending out HTML to the list is not desirable for a number of reasons.
allow you to toggle between html and text, so they're stuck with HTML and
can't participate.
I'm not a techie - so the answer to the question I am going to ask may be screamingly obvious to anyone who is a techie - but I shall ask it none the less. Can't there be some kind of automatic techie fix for this at the moderation point?
This is the thinking behind the question:
I use Mozilla to send emails. I don't knowingly use HTML in my emails, but I guess I sometimes "pick some up along the way" when I am forwarding messages. This must be the reason why sometimes when I try to send an email I get a warning message from Mozilla about HTML. It tells me that some people who I am sending to don't like getting HTML so do I want to send in "the usual non HTML way" ... (I can't think what sending in the usual way is called). Any how I just click on the choice for not sending in HTML and then the email goes through okay. I imagine that Mozilla strips out any HTML and sends the email in an acceptable way.
If Mozilla does that for me before I send emails, then why can't Andy have something similar automatically built into the moderation process? If an email arrives in HTML why can't a warning message be automatically generated back to the sender asking for permission for the message to be passed on to the list in the ordinary way (without the HTML) and then that be done automatically at the point where emails are accepted by the moderator? Mozilla is open source. I understand that to mean that people who understand these things can use and adapt what has already been done.
As a non techie I look forward to learning more as I discover if this suggestion is Good Idea/Bad idea.
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