Barry wrote:
Please folks, send messages in plain ascii, even if you insist on using Internet explorer or Netscape. It's practically unreadable when I receive it because of all the HTML commands embedded. In fact, I usually don't read, so your deep thoughts are lost to me -- and I think to many others.
Frank wrote:
Filtering the headers of mailinglist messages on <Content-Type: multipart/alternative> will send all messages with attachments or in HTML to the bitbucket.
Even assuming (but let's not) that htmlized messages just aren't worth reading, rich-texted messages are both hard to read and hard to filter in digest mode, and the list manager tells us that 682 of 813 subscribers -- also known as 84-ish percent -- are getting the digest. Barry's right. If your e-mail client is encouraging you to write e-mails with bold, blue, flashing characters, do go to the preferences and tell it to stop... cheers Bram -- / Bram Dov Abramson / babramson@telegeography.com / / Director of Internet Research / TeleGeography, Inc. / / tel: +1 202 741 0047 (new numbers) / fax: +1 202 741 0021 (we've moved)