Please do not send HTML to mailing lists or newsgroups

[John E. Malmberg]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 samba-vms at lists.samba.organization wrote:

Several messages with this header.

> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
> this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.

The above message is generated by the sending mail client since it is
aware that it is sending the mail in a format that is not universally
readable.  Unfortunately it does not notify the sender that it is doing
this.

The digest mode of this list can not digest HTML, outputs it as pages and
pages of garbage.  This makes it almost impossible to find the actual
content.

HTML adds nothing to the content of the message, and just uses up mailbox
space.


Please set your mail clients to send in plain text unless you know that
the people receiving want to receive HTML messages.

By the way, most HTML that arrives on mailing lists is SPAM, with a small
amount being from people who are new to internet E-mail/ newsgroups and
have not yet learned that mailing lists and usenet newsgroup by default
are plain text only.

Many companies delete incoming HTML mail as it is the easiest and most
effective way of eliminating SPAM and most viruses.  No notification is
given to either the sender or the intended recipiant.


Please make sure that you do not have the option active to reply in the
same format as the original message.  In Microsoft Outlook, it overrides
all other settings that specify plain text.


If you can not figure out how to set your mail program to plain text to
comply with general internet conventions, post what it is, and someone can
probably explain how to fix it's configuration.

[Totally unreadable HTML deleted.]


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-John
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