yes.... but most RFC complaint mailers will append the plaintext version of the email as well as the HTML version.
Rgerads Tomasz Ciolek On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:12:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One word of warning on assuming all html mail is bad. Some of us are on > corporate email systems, subject to pointless arbitrary changes to our > settings. About a year ago, my preferences in Lotus Notes (a bad database > program masquerading as a worse mail program) were modified to have me > send mail to the internet in html format. I didn't even know it was > happening, until i started getting nasty messages from people's mail > systems saying my mail was being rejected because it contained html > formatting, on which point I threw myself a message to my home address to > verify it, and searched out the preferences setting to turn it back to > text.... > ...Point being, if we do decide to reject all html-formatted email, let's > have it bounce with explanation, not just fall into a black hole. > It saddens me to know that blocking all of Korea is the right thing to do. > Maybe if more things like this > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1554227&mode=thread&tid=133 > happen, things will change. > > Tim Conway > [EMAIL PROTECTED] reorder name and reverse domain > 303.682.4917 office, 303.921.0301 cell > Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC > 1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D > Longmont, CO 80501 > Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, caesupport2 on AIM > "There are some who call me.... Tim?" > > > > > > > > > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 12/10/02 03:08 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS) > Subject: Re: SPAM on List... > Classification: > > > > Greetings list admins > > I'd just like to add that as almost all the SPAM I receive is HTML, a very > > effective way to get rid of a very large fraction of spam would be to > refuse > all HTML posts. I've not seen any genuine posts to this list which have > been > web pages. > > -- > Sincerely etc., > Christopher Sawtell > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Tomasz M. Ciolek * * Everything falls under the law of change; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Like a dream, a phantom, a bubble, a shadow, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * like dew of flash of lightning. * You should contemplate like this. ******************************************************************************* GPG Key ID: 0x7A18E49D * Available on www.pgp.net ******************************************************************************* -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
