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Subject: [OM] Re: fonts in e-mail - digest test
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:48:30 -0700
>From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>If you use a Mac, good e-mail programs that respect "plain text" are
> >(among others) Eudora and Mailsmith.
>
>My point was that they are also able to read and display HTML just fine.

But what was sent was NOT a legal HTML document. By strict interpretation, any 
email client that DOES display it "properly" is broken! :-)

Just playing devil's advocate here... the fact remains that so-called "HTML" is 
such a slippery target that one cannot expect any given email client to behave 
well with it.

Personally, I have a filter that sends any email containing <HTML>...</HTML> to 
the trash. That gets rid of about 900f spam. Lacking this REQUIRED tag, the 
example was NOT proper HTML, and slipped by my filter.
-- 
: Jan Steinman -- nature Transography(TM): <http://www.Bytesmiths.com>
: Bytesmiths -- artists' services: <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Services>

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