[pmmail-list] Browsers and HTML

[Phil Kane]

>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:41:10 +0200
>From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin@orgfarm.uu.se>

>> >message and then displays whatever's left over.  It does not support
>> >sending HTML messages.
>>
>>... and I hope this will never change! :)
>
>Well, at least Pmm should be able to open html-mail. Sending html
>is not necessary. 8-)
>
>I myself try to educate my users not to use html in mails. Guess
>how successful I am...?

   I finally gave up being "Mister Nice Guy" and have set a filter on
   mail which looks for the html and /html tages in the body of the
   message, and if found, deletes the message and sends the following
   back to the originator:

      This is an automated reply to your message sent to the address
      above.

      Your message was automatically deleted - unread - because it
      contained material with HTML (browser format) tags.

      This system accepts only plain text messages which are not
      advertising material.

      System Administrator

   Occasionally recipients of the above get a little bent out of shape
   but it serves then right. HTML has no place in a text-oriented
   system. I have no desire to enable PMMail to  read HTML-formatted
   messages, which would only aid and abet such unacceptable behavior.

   I guess that's what happens when the computer is relegated to a
   consumer appliance.  <rant off>

---
   Phil Kane

   From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
   Beaverton (Washington County)  Oregon

   Computer jock/geek since 1957.

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