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  From: Stephen Donaldson <steve@cyberqual.com>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:59:31 +0930

Re: List & HTML Mail

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.  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.
>

Agreed.


Steve

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