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Re: For The Record: HTML Email on the Internet; RFC 2557


I think Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> What I *am* annoyed with are multipart-mixed messages...  They actually do
> *double* the content for no purpose other than accomodating text-only
> clients.  If you want to send HTML mail, do it, but don't send *both* text
> and HTML.

That's funny, because it's just precisely the opposite of the way I
feel. Spam HTML mail often contains Web bugs, and so just by viewing
it you can be informing the sender that you read the message (i.e.,
inviting more spam.) Therefore, I always have my mail client set to
ignore HTML content. If somebody sends HTML-only mail, then I see a
blank message. I'd rather they send multipart/mixed, so I can read the
plaintext with a minimum of keystrokes.

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Ernest Friedman-Hill  
Distributed Systems Research   
Sandia National Labs          

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