On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:37 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 13:24, Jonathan Berry wrote: > > A thought on HTML messages... Would it be difficult incredibly for > > the list to strip the HTML and either only send out the text MIME > > No point. The HTML duplicates the plain text. Mostly, it's > multipart/alternative. > > > part, or extract the text from the HTML and send only that along to > > the list recipients? This doesn't seem like it would not be a hard > > thing to do. And it would make the archives not choke on HTML > > messages, and not annoy people who don't like HTML messages. Any > > other thoughts? > I suggest > a) Warn about it in the rules section where they subscribe. > b) Bounce them. > c) Inform people in the welcome letter. > > It won't take long for people to learn. > > In the bounce msg remind them of other rules too. > > -- > Cheers > John > I made a filter for the body of the email if html then off to the html folder > select all > delete. Someone on this list made a list of why not to read html, I don't know who to thank but it's at: http://www.tmpco.com/textvshtml.html If you remember who you are I'll put your name on it. Tim...
