Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Jules Bean may or may not have written...On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:55:45AM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:Please don't send HTML to mailing lists in the future. Some people do not have HTML-capable mail readers, and others have spam filters that are quite likely to kill all HTML mail. It's much better to post whatever you HTML you have on a webpage, and send a URL to the list instead.Messages sent to the Debian mailing lists (esp. the development lists) should be in plaintext.Well. Don't send HTML messages, no. But he didn't. He sent a properly structured MIME message with a plain text body and an HTML attachment.
I have here a record of, er, action being taken over a message with ID <[🔎] 000001c28f0b$3e26af10$0200a8c0@xp> by a script of mine. It's available from <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.linux.html#exim_antihtml> - perhaps I should make a .deb of it? :-)
It'd probably be more polite to do the bouncing/autoresponding after splitting out mailing list traffic. The message in question did in fact have a plain text body. (The body was multipart/alternative with a text version and a WordTML version, and there was a normal HTML attachment after the body.) Steve dunham@cse.msu.edu