On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:22:50AM +1000, Alister Waller wrote:
> > Is there some rule about not using HTML formated email on this list??
> > if so, why is that?
>
> Because instant deletion by 90% of the list is not conducive to
> discussion. You were hoping that others would _read_ your
> message, no?
Or, putting is more succintly, would even attempt to read something
that looked like the following HTML email?
(and this is a relatively innocuous example!)
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
This is an email generated using Netscape's HTML mail feature.
<br>It should be sent with the multi-part MIME format, both in HTML
<br>and plain text..
<br>
<h1>
<font color="#FF6666">What you see is not necessarily what you get!</font></h1>
<i><u><font size=+3>Bye now.</font></u></i>
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