[increasingly offtopic rant] Well, a *proper* MUA would send both text/html and text/plain bodyparts in a multipart/alternative container, so that a *proper* CUI MUA could render the important part of the message without all the markup. But the evidence suggests that many maintainers of HTML-possessed MUAs still do not read standards. :-P
Some character-cell MUAs will, in desperation, delegate HTML rendering
to a character-cell browser and then display the result. I'm willing
to go the extra mile with messages that can be so treated, if the
actual text is intelligible. Often I find that this yields something
more readable than what the sender thought I would see. But some MUAs
do not even mark their HTML output as HTML, foiling this. :-{
When I open a message and see nothing but a farrago of markup, I
generally throw it away unread. Unless it's an anticipated message
from a known sender, it's too much trouble even to type "v", "m" to
force it through lynx.
Sent from my big clunky desktop using Mutt.
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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu
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