[buug] Re: [Buug-admin] OpenLinux PowerSolutions Tour 2000

[Christopher Sullivan]

Please explain to your spamhaus that sending __LINUX__ users HTML and CSS
encoded E-Mail will usually result in just offending the users, and
resulting in it being deleted before it is read.  Since the majority of
text-based mail readers (including older versions of Pine, and current
versions of mutt and elm) cannot properly lay up HTML, resulting in your
message being unreadable.

Additionally, HTML is not an E-mail standard, it is a web-based
standard.  It increases the size of E-Mail, and permits all sorts of
tom-foolery that jeopardises people's E-Mail security and privacy.  A
company that is supposed to stand for standardization of Internet
protocols (as opposed to Microsoft's apparent 3E [embrace, extend,
extinguish] standards policies) probably should not be sending out
HTML-based E-Mail.

Do _NOT_ send us E-Mail until you figure out a way to get your spamhaus to
send ONLY PLAIN TEXT MESSAGES, free of HTML markups.

-Chris
Mouthpiece
Berkeley Unix Users Group

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Caldera Systems wrote:

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