At 2:56 AM -0500 3/9/01, Aaron Schrab is rumored to have typed:
If your list doesn't block or strip HTML messages, you might want to try giving them what they ask for. Once they get a message that displays with the raw HTML (and maybe a base64 encoded image), I bet they'd change their mind.
Actually, the main complaint I hear is the reverse - that their mailer explodes the digest into seperate messages (usually accompanied with, "this defeats the purpose of a Digest!!!!!"), when they want to read it linerally...something I frankly prefer, too, but can easily set in Eudora by unchecking "Receive MIME digests as attachments," a checkbox that doesn't seem to be available in the Microsoft products, so far as I can tell. (*sigh*). But yeah, the next step _is_ to begin unblocking those annoying, unnecessary, and bandwidth-wasting HTML messages. I also have a digest-only list that I took over after the death of the original maintainer with a couple thousand subs I want to change _back_ to the proper MIME type (he had it as text/plain, and I didn't want to add even more the list membership who was coping with all the other changes) - so I'm going to need to be prepared for the inevitable backlash that will hit. Charlie