List etiquette question

[Timothy Payne]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:37 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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
> 

I made a filter for the body of the email if html then off to the html
folder > select all > delete.

Someone on this list made a list of why not to read html, I don't know
who to thank but it's at: http://www.tmpco.com/textvshtml.html  If you
remember who you are I'll put your name on it.

Tim...