> The solution I would like is a subscription process which recognizes
> whether a new subscriber can handle HTML or not and sends HTML-based 
> messages out in HTML or plaintext, accordingly.  However, I'm not sure that
> current subscription protocols have the ability to do that level of
> discrimination yet.

Seems simple enough.  Send a confirmation message in multipart/crud, er,
multipart/alternative format with one confirmation URL in the text part and a
different one in the HTML part, with mailback instructions in the part above
the first MIME. 

Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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