Hello, Mark. On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 09:56:20 -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:50:18PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > José María Mateos wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 02:56:35PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > >> Some considerate organisation has been sending me MIME mails with > > >> content in a text/html section and a wholly blank text/plain version. > > >> What I see in mutt is the blank text/plain. Who on Earth thought a > > >> blank text/plain section was somehow a good idea?
> > [I know, I know, I'm answering a rhetorical question.] > > I suspect one likely group would be the companies who depend > > on advertising revenue. With HTML, they can stuff tracking > > (whether direct like hidden pixels or indirect by changing > > any URLs in the message to go through their servers. Those > > things aren't very useful in text/plain, so shipping a blank > > part just forces many folks to view the text/html. > Or hit "d" and move on to a readable message. If only it were so simple! I need stuff from this organisation. > -- > Mark H. Wood > Lead Technology Analyst > University Library > Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis > 755 W. Michigan Street > Indianapolis, IN 46202 > 317-274-0749 > www.ulib.iupui.edu -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
