Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> writes: > Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a > technical limitation with our mailing list software.
It is not a technical limitation. We explicitly reject HTML e-mail. We could accept it. As Jonathan pointed out, accepting HTML e-mail and then displaying it in the web archives will make us even more of a spam target than we already are, and will mean that we will need some mechanisms for identifying and removing spam and virus links in the web pages. A possible compromise would be to accept HTML e-mail that has a text alternative, and only display the text alternative in the archives. That would also work for people who have text-only e-mail readers. In general that would help for people who use e-mail programs that send HTML with text alternatives by default. But it would fail for people who actually use HTML formatting in a meaningful way. And, of course, this would require some administrative work to be done. I don't really care one way or the other on this issue. That said: 1) People who send HTML e-mail ought to get a bounce message, so I would think they would be able to reform. 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change our policy. Ian
