Bill Seitz <bill@fluxent.com> writes: (01)
% I understand that some people use email readers which don't handle HTML
% content. (02)
Yes... Me for example. (03)
% But current GUI mailers send (optionally) both plaintext and HTML
% versions of messages (multipart-mime). (04)
Yes.... What a pain. (05)
% Are the plaintext readers current enough to just read the plaintext
% piece of the message? (06)
Yes, mostly. The plain text is first.
It has goop like: (07)
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% Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
% Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (08)
In the middle you have to dance around. (09)
% What ends up in the archived page? (010)
It depends on the archiver. But mhonarc, the last time
I looked at it did not do a good job of coping with HTML. (011)
% I have intentionally sent this message in such a manner. Here is a
% *bold*word just to make sure something non-plain goes along. (012)
Yes... I see all the goop. (013)
And it leaves the following on the message that
you have to delete. (014)
I tend to leave it on the message and then get complaints
about all the extra goop I put into messages.... (sigh) (015)
Your HTML generator is rather clean. Some of them
produce pages and pages of noise. (016)
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% Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
% Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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% <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
% <html>
% <head>
% <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
% <title></title>
% </head>
% <body>
% I understand that some people use email readers which don't handle HTML
% content.<br>
% <br>
% But current GUI mailers send (optionally) both plaintext and HTML
% versions of messages (multipart-mime). <br>
% <br>
% Are the plaintext readers current enough to just read the plaintext
% piece of the message?<br>
% <br>
% What ends up in the archived page?<br>
% <br>
% I have intentionally sent this message in such a manner. Here is a
<b>bold</b>word
% just to make sure something non-plain goes along.<br>
% </body>
% </html>
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