On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:50:29 -0500, kilopascal wrote:
>I'm confused. Every day I get at least 10 unsolicited e-mails containing
>all kinds of advertisement. Most come in HTML. Now, If I'm getting these,
>others must also be getting something similar. So, how do these so-called
>HTML-challenged people cope? They must be all on the verge of massive heat
>attacks from the stress and anger of having to constantly deal with garble.
Fairly simple: any mail with a content type of text/html or encoding of
Big5[1] gets routed to a spam folder for filing (of the circular variety)
or complaining at my leisure. I've yet to see a message containing both
meaningful content and HTML encoding, and I've been using email since
well before HTML was invented.
>But, they get no sympathy from me. I said it here a many times: UPGRADE.
>There is a lot of free software out there that is HTML friendly. If you
>aren't willing to upgrade, that is your problem. Quit trying to make the
>rest of us take the extra steps to accommodate those who refuse to change.
If I wanted to allow other users to email me with blinking text and
dingbats, I might consider it. Otherwise, the best email software (such
as Powermail) omits HTML support for a reason -- it belongs in web
browsers, not email clients.
[1] On the assumption that anyone emailing me will do so in a language
that they know I speak (English, German, Japanese); thus, any messages
not in ASCII, ISO-8859-(1|15), ISO-2022, ShiftJIS, JIS, EUC or UTF-8 are
guaranteed to be spam.
--
Brad Ackerman N1MNB "[GWB is] prissy, arrogant, brittle, not terribly bright,
Wandering Gweep and if he gets anywhere near the White House the damage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] he will do the country will, I believe, be *substantial*."
PGP: 0x62D6B223 -- J. Michael Straczynski, on r.a.s.t.b5.moderated
