From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 5 5:56:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tninet.se (lennier.tninet.se [195.100.94.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4622C37B405 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 05:56:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.umu.se (h16n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.16]) by lennier.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 786884.14976.1018.0s18548242lennier ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:56:16 +0200 Message-ID: <3CADAD00.F11E7ABC@cs.umu.se> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:56:16 +0200 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Dewhirst Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: HTML mail (hub.freebsd.org spam policy) References: <0B0368CED76DD4118E1200D0B73E9B5D041E9FAA@MAIL1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Dewhirst wrote: > > just picking up on an earlier thing about HTML email (and begin > guilty myself) - is it not possible to strip all HTML messages > down to plain text format? > > I think the jakarta-struts mailing list does it... Of course it is possible, but why put the load on a maybe already busy mail server? The human brain has more power than a FreeBSD server (I at least hope that's the case :-), so why let the com- puter deal with it? It's easy to learn that one shouldn't mix HTML in mails. It's also quite easy to configure your mail client to not send HTML at all, but plain text. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message