Re: virus - you've still got it! - please send in ASCII

[Carl Distefano CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Peter Evans  Wed, 24 May
2000 09:18:19 +0900

-> You're very welcome to send e-mail in any format you and your
-> recipients like. However, the parody of HTML produced by
-> Outlook and others is so bloated that its mere flab quotient
-> should bar it from mailing lists.

The fact that HTML can be a vehicle for disseminating (if not
executing) viral code also makes it not so hot for mailing lists.
But the real reason for discouraging it has to do, of course, with
basic courtesy: many (perhaps most) mail programs can't interpret
HTML, so readers are forced to tease the message out of a screen
full of "garbage", or discard it altogether.

In a word, HTML on mailing lists is anti-social. So, please,
PLEASE, disable HTML and send only plain text to the list. If I
could instruct the list processor to reject HTML-coded messages, I
would.

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Carl Distefano
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