Re: gEDA-user: Can we fix the HTML stripping on this list?

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Ben Jackson wrote:
> In a multipart/alternative MIME document, the *last* alternative is
> the one with "highest fidelity".  That means that a typical message  
> sent
> in both text/plain and text/html will have the text/html second in the
> multipart/alternative.  The list software is filtering and  
> replacing the
> HTML with text/plain, generally producing a much worse plaintext than
> the original mailer.  The result is multipart/alternative with TWO
> text/plain sections, the second ("preferred") one being the mangled  
> HTML.
>
> Personally I advocate going back to NOT mangling the HTML, and I will
> go on reading the list in my text only mailer which prefers the  
> text/plain
> section.  If we must keep mangling HTML, either remove it (if a  
> text/plain
> already exists) or properly order the sections so that the original
> mailer's text/plain is preferred instead of the illegible output of  
> the
> list's filter.

   I vote for automatic and immediate unsubscription of people who  
post messages in HTML.

            -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL



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