HTML and MIME....fussy ppl

[Brett Dikeman]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, quattro toronto wrote:

> I strongly believe that if an individual keeps posting with HTML/MIME 
> despite being warned by the Audifans OWNER, yes, not anyone of you but the 
> OWNER, he/she can be banned.
> I respect the Audifans owner's rights and rules.

http://www.audifans.com/lists.html

8th paragraph.

"There is no cost for subscribing to the lists, but you must subscribe in
order to post a message to the list. This is to prevent spamming from
outside parties. Also, messages sent to the list must be in plain text
format - no MIME, HTML, image or file attachments. If your messages are
not getting through, check your mail program settings. Posts to the
list are sent to quattro at audifans.com, whether you are on the main list or
the digest."

Sounds pretty authoritive to me.


> All Im saying is HTML is a BIG part of the Internet.

NO.

It is a PART OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB.

That is NOT, repeat, NOT "the internet."

HTML in email messages was dreamed up for idiots who like to have stylized
signatures and other fluffy crap in their emails.  That garbage doubles
the size of every email and infuriates those who have mail programs which
don't read HTML, or those who pay by the byte, or those who have a slow
connection.

There are side effects you don't realize; thanks to these geniuses and 
Microsoft, your average spammer can now instantly tell
who has read their spam.  How? They look for image hits from graphics they
reference in the HTML of the email, with a special name that indicates a
DB lookup number, or just your email address.  Your email client
faithfully loads that image, and the webserver on the other end makes a
note that the email was successfully delivered and more spam can
be sent to that address.  There could also be embedded javascript/java,
etc that assists all of this.

The amount of spam I get since we switched to Outlook at work has
quadrupled...

Brett