HTML email (was Re: [LINK] Mozilla - slow progress)

Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:20:45 +1000

hartr@redhat.com:
>>  Email is all about communication - and getting the message through is
>>  the fundamental issue. With html mail there is no guarantee that the
>>  message will get through correctly or even at all.

One of the filters that I use to flick a proportion of my incoming 
mail into a 'Suspected Spam' mailbox is IF <message-body> contains 
'<html>'.  It generates occasional false positives, but frankly not 
many.

The HTML-mail phenomenon was invented in order to tempt dumbos into 
using the same commercial supplier for both their web-browser and 
their email-client, and thereby to generate enough identified data 
for that supplier to get control of the dumbos' consumption habits.

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