In my mind, it just seemed silly to block an individual HTML flagged line,
but I guess the server cannot distinguish between someone asking a technical
question and an HTML formatted email. Although, one would think that it
could bounce emails that were not plain text, as it's found in the header of
the email, without bouncing based on the content.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Brown" <larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com>
To: <flalug@nks.net>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 10:37 PM
Subject: [newletters] RE: [flalug] Re: BOUNCE flalug@nks.net:
> I have not been on a list yet that hasn't insisted on plain text only
> posting. I think it is a good idea for a lot of reasons and I'd just as
> soon not have dynamic content poping up in my face while I am trying to
read
> messages. For getting help and discussing technical aspects and content,
> the less flash, the better. Besides, with html content who would want to
> see little smiley faces out of semicolons, hyphens and parentheses. ;-)
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: flalug@nks.net [mailto:flalug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Smitty
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 8:57 PM
> To: flalug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [flalug] Re: BOUNCE flalug@nks.net:
>
>
> On Monday 26 April 2004 20:54, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > Smitty wrote:
> snip
> >
> > I don't believe I've ever been on a list that actually bounced all
> > instances of HTML tags, though I've been on a great many that are
> > plain-text-only for purposes of keeping bandwidth down. I figured if
> > this was such a case that any HTML would simply be passed through
> > unmolested. In any case, now that it has been explained, the
> > HTML-bounce policy makes a certain amount of sense.
> >
> > Is this policy referred to anywhere for this list? If so, I'm afraid I
> > overlooked it.
>
> I just added it today at http://www.flalug.org/list.html as an
advisement.
> Regards,
> Smitty
>
>
>
>
>
>
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