[Zope] Re: OT: HTML

[Charlie Reiman]

For me, HTML email is occasionally pretty handy. Yes, I dislike it but
sometimes I need to annotate text with colors or underlines or links. ASCII
just doesn't do that.

More importantly, zope@zope.org is an educational forum. It's open and free
to encourage newbies post and get their questions answered. Newbies are the
most likely people to post in HTML so tossing their postings will only
confuse and fluster them further.

That's enough of a devil's advocate position. I don't really have any
objection to stripping HTML. Removing all attachments might be a problem as
patches are occasionally posted as attachments.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Paul
> Tiemann
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:43 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Re: OT: HTML
>
>
> (Off topic warning!  It's about an HTML posting solution...)
>
> It seems HTML posting is a frequent problem on the list, enough to
> generate occasional threads like this one...  Why not filter it out at
> the source?  From the mailman faq:
>
> Q. My users hate HTML in their email and for security reasons, I want to
> strip out all MIME attachments. How can I do this?
>
> A. Mailman 2.1 will probably have this feature built-in, but for now you
> can use add-on tools such as demime or stripmime. More information on
> these tools can be found at:
>
> (Stripmime) http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html
>
> (Demime) http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html
>
>
> <snip>
> Etienne is supplying both a plain text and HTML version of the message.
> Please configure your email reader to display the plain text part in
> preference.
>
> Etienne and others should not post HTML, neither alone nor together
> with another format.
>
> At least I refuse to read messages containing HTML: they are often
> four to ten times larger than necessary. And, unfortunately,
> my email reader insists to use the highest quality variant present
> in the message. Thus, they are killed unread.
> </snip>