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[Tim Roberts]

On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 10:33:10 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 23:11:13 -0400, Brandon King wrote:
>
>>I agree. I am not sure that it can be done in PMMail 2000, but this
>>will be looked at when coding the new version. If the sending mailers
>>insist on placing tags into text/plain segments, it will require PMMail
>>to ignore/strip those tags when the user chooses to see text/plain.
>
>The code to do this is already extant in PMMail/2, it strips HTML tags
>of all kinds under all circumstances for display in its own window, and
>it's *marvellous*!!!

But, as Rod pointed out, "stripping" is not the right answer, either.  What 
it should do is display them literally, without interpretation.

What if you had asked me how to create a simple web page, and I sent you this 
reply:

  {html}
    {body}
      {h1}This is a header tag.{/h1}
    {/body}
  {/html}

If you were using PMMail today, you could not read this.  Note that I have 
used curly brackets in place of angle brackets specifically because of this 
problem.

Indeed, in a mail I posted yesterday, I made the statement "That's not 
prohibited, and neither is interpreting embedded {html} tags", but what comes 
through in PMMail's display is "That's not prohibited, and neither is 
interpreting embedded  tags".

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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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