Re: PATCH: don't include text/html in reply, ...

[John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr webmail bmi net>]

On 2001.08.22 12:08 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 22.08.2001 20:11:45 schrieb(en) John Merryweather Cooper:
> > Whether it is correct or not may be besides the point--both Netscape
> and
> > Macrohards' Outlook/Outlook Express have options that allow the
> sender
> > to FORCE only sending HTML mail.  This may be horrid, but the
> reality is
> 
> It *is* horrid...
> 
> > that I get plenty of "empty" messages this way--either because
> they're
> 
> Hmmm... we might introduce a user configurable option if html parts
> shall be
> stripped or not. However, IMHO we should not compensate other
> progammer's
> errors...
> 
> Cheers, Albrecht
> 
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I sympathize with your opinion, unfortuneately, MacroHard does not.  The
world is full of broken browsers, e-mail clients AND servers, etc.
because of them, but an e-mail tool fails of its purpose if it make
communication MORE difficult.  User configurable would be fine (I might
even use it), but mandatory would blot an increasing (large) number of
mailers from communicating--either way you look at it. . . :)

jmc