On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 03:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Whatever it is, its not actually doing a full html conversion. No MIME headers > are being generated, just a few character subs that aren't required in an > otherwise straight text message. It wouldn't matter what headers were generated, you can't use HTML-like character entities outside of the languages that use it (HTML, SGML, etc.), text isn't one of them. I received that message as a text-only message (not a dual text & HTML one), and it had that erroneous junk in it. The PHP doodah that created it is most definitely broken. > You'll find a heavy resistance to the use of html mail anyway. Primarily the > objection stems from the days of slow modems & by the minute billing for your > long distance service just to get to an internet access point. In those > days, anything that quadrupled the size of the message in byte count was a > capital offense. Even today, if we completely did away with html email, we > would gain lots more usable bandwidth on the backbone. It's also a waste of storage space. For anything that stores mail (archives on the web, people who download and keep mail, etc.), it's wasting at least two-three times the space it really needs for the content. It usually makes a pig's breakfast of quoting, especially anything with more than one level of quoting. And then there's the exploit potentials. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
