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From:	ejfried AT ca DOT sandia DOT gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
Message-Id:	<200304110326.UAA12207@ca.sandia.gov>
Subject:	Re: For The Record: HTML Email on the Internet; RFC 2557
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.GSO.4.44.0304102237120.26381-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> from
	Igor Pechtchanski at "Apr 10, 2003 11:05:53 pm"
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:26:45 -0700 (PDT)
MIME-Version:	1.0

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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