List etiquette question

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Nov 19 12:37:25 UTC 2004


On Friday 19 November 2004 13:24, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> A thought on HTML messages...  Would it be difficult incredibly for
> the list to strip the HTML and either only send out the text MIME

No point. The HTML duplicates the plain text. Mostly, it's 
multipart/alternative.

> part, or extract the text from the HTML and send only that along to
> the list recipients?  This doesn't seem like it would not be a hard
> thing to do.  And it would make the archives not choke on HTML
> messages, and not annoy people who don't like HTML messages.  Any
> other thoughts?
I suggest
a) Warn about it in the rules section where they subscribe.
b) Bounce them.
c) Inform people in the welcome letter.

It won't take long for people to learn.

In the bounce msg remind them of other rules too.

-- 
Cheers
John




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