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[Brian Morrison]

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On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 11:50:33 -0700
"Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 19:22:31 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:56:02 -0700 "Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> But, as Rod pointed out, "stripping" is not the right answer,
> >either.
> >
> >Right answer for whom? I don't participate in mailing lists where I
> >am exchanging html source code with people, therefore AFAIAC I don't
> >ever want to see this stuff.
> 
> That is a policy decision that PMMail should not be making.  It should
> not be censoring strings from my e-mail.

I agree, but I'd like the option to choose what it does.

> 
> >> What it should do is display them literally, without
> >interpretation.
> >
> >If that's what you need it to do.
> >
> >Very difficult problem isn't it?
> 
> No, it's not.  What if PMMail decided that all occurrances of the
> string "Brian" should be removed as the message is displayed?  That is
> exactly the same as what it is currently doing with {HTML} tags.  It
> is wrong.
> 
> If YOU don't want to see HTML tags in a text/plain section, then YOU
> can have a filter to remove them.  PMMail should not be forcing that
> behavior.

Agreed, but writing a filter to remove all tags from a message is pretty
difficult and is beyond the capabilities of most users. Therefore I'd
like a way to do it that involves a mouse click or similar, but with the
option not to do it for those that need to see the tags.

-- 
Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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