On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:27:42AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:44:35PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: > > If you keep track, you'll probably find, as I have, that HTML-only > > e-mail is between 99% to 100% spam. > > HTML email is sent exclusively by three groups of people: > > 1. Ignorant newbies > 2. Ineducable morons > 3. Spammers > > There are no exceptions. It thus, to Jim's point, an excellent > anti-spam/anti-stupidity technique to refuse all such traffic > at the MTA. > What about clients that you are doing support for? In the end of the day I will have to provide value for my clients instead of whining because they are using html in their emails.
Most of the time they don't even know that they are doing something stupid. The same way some people don't know how the water is coming to their homes. The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make me a newbie. That's what abstractions in our world are for. -- Nikola
