On Mon, 03 Dec 2001, Scott Howard wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:30:34PM +1100, Rebecca Richards wrote: > > I'm getting rather sick of idiots posting to a _Linux_ mailing list using > > broken mailers like Outlook. I'm getting even sicker of those who send > > emails out with both a plain text, and HTML version. If the plain-text > > message wasn't bad enough, the HTML version sure was. It also increased the > > number of lines I've had to scroll through * 3 + some for headers and HTML > > fluffiness + some for the MIME-encoding lines + some for html-encoding the > > mime-encoding lines... > > Welcome to the 21st century. > > If your email client doesn't support MIME multipart messages then it's > time to catch up with the rest of the planet. > > You wouldn't complain about the slug homepage using tables or javascript(*) > which dont work on your Netscape 0.9 browser, would you? > > (* and ugly java script at that - I can't believe I actually wrote it that > way :)
Actually, I would. HTML was designed to be backwards compatible. You should still be able to get something reasonably rendered. (Use alt tags people!). Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
