Guys, nobody cares what email client you use. If you prefer a text based
email client, for security or any other reason, that's entirely your choice.

Where the FAQ errs is in asking people to disable outgoing HTML email. I've
been on this list almost 12 years, and I won't comply with that request. Why
should the FAQ ask anyone else to?

Nobody is going to make a global change in their email settings, disabling a
feature that I and many other people find very useful, just because some
email list they've subscribed to asks them to turn it off.

Now, there certainly could be a *useful* FAQ entry about HTML email, but
what it says would depend on how the email list software actually handles
HTML email. I haven't really tested it myself. Does it pass through HTML
formatting like *italics* and *bold* and
links<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad>,
or does it only forward the text version?

-Mike

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:

> FWIW, I'm in complete agreement. In that regard it's my choice to open or
> view any web-based features or attachments.
>
> No Activex/scripting is going to take over the pc via an email view.
>
>
>  I prefer a text based e-mail program, for SECURITY and other reasons.
>
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