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  From: Dale Long <dalel@loftuscomp.com.au>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:11:49 +0930 (CST)

Re: List & HTML Mail

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, David Newall wrote:
> > Newbies are by definition new things,
> > ...
> > The solution is to communicate expectations and verify them.
> 
> I'm lazy.  I say: why communicate something twice, if you can do it once
> and forever be done with it.

But in many instances, the HTML policy had not been communicated in the
first place, before they were made the target of a flame, satire or some
other negative comment.

> That's why I advocate automated return to
> sender of messages that don't conform to standards.  We already do that
> if the message doesn't have a registered sender's address; we should add
> a requirement that mime formatted messages must have a first section of
> text/plain; no text/html or text/multipart. 

I agree. How do we action this? I have already offered to do something
like this.

Dale.

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