don't like HTML email? here's your fix.

Alexander Sarras pmmail@rpglink.com
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:41:13 +0200 (CED)


On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:19:20 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

> OK, for those who wanted a filter for HTML email, here it is. This
> one is very basic so I questioned whether I should even post it but I
> guess some people might not have known how to do the following. This
> filter should catch any HTML email from Netscape. Does IE use a
> different "content-type" line? I don't know. I'll check later tonight
> when I boot to Windows.
> 
> [...]
> If you want to delete HTML messages along with sending a canned
> reply, just delete the messages, or do something else, play around
> with the various "Actions" that PMMail/2's filters offer.
> 
This is the, after a long time of trying it friendly, rather rude (TM)
canned reply, I use:

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Since I have to pay for the time used to download email sent to me, I 
> can't, won't or will ever read html-formated email. It wastes a lot of 
> time and bandwidth, and doessn't conform to standards.
> 
>   *********************************************************************
>   ***  HTML-BASED EMAIL WILL BE REJECTED WITHOUT EVER BEING SEEN BY ***
>   *** USERS ON THIS SYSTEM  !!!                                     ***
>   *********************************************************************
> 
> If you want to contact anybody here, set your mailer for non-HTML email.
> If you are not capable of doing this, ask someone who is.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Though, huh? But it works!
SaS
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