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Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Mon Nov 8 20:46:50 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:01:07PM +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On 11/08/2004 10:04:27 AM, A Fedora Core list member wrote:
> 
> >
> >And don't post HTML messages to this list.
> 
> I've seen several cases on the various Fedora lists where a complaint
> is made about html messages that are actually sent as both text/plain
> and as html messages.
> 

There are a number of arguments against using Highly Toxic to Mail
Language; I have summarized them at
http://www.charlescurley.com/netiquette.html 2E.

You not quite correct that all mail readers send both HTML and plain
text; some do, others do not. In some cases, it is a configuration
issue.

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