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Re: For The Record: HTML Email on the Internet; RFC 2557
- From: ejfried at ca dot sandia dot gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:26:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: For The Record: HTML Email on the Internet; RFC 2557
I think Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> What I *am* annoyed with are multipart-mixed messages... They actually do
> *double* the content for no purpose other than accomodating text-only
> clients. If you want to send HTML mail, do it, but don't send *both* text
> and HTML.
That's funny, because it's just precisely the opposite of the way I
feel. Spam HTML mail often contains Web bugs, and so just by viewing
it you can be informing the sender that you read the message (i.e.,
inviting more spam.) Therefore, I always have my mail client set to
ignore HTML content. If somebody sends HTML-only mail, then I see a
blank message. I'd rather they send multipart/mixed, so I can read the
plaintext with a minimum of keystrokes.
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Ernest Friedman-Hill
Distributed Systems Research
Sandia National Labs
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