Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Distributed Systems Research Sandia National Labs -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/