HTML-encoded mail == BAD

Sun Oct 19 17:35:51 PDT 2003

Quoting Piotr T Zbiegiel (peter at usestrict.org):

> You are encoding your WHOLE MESSAGE in HTML! Have you ever
> looked at the raw source of one of your messages?  Your messages are
> multi-part MIME.

Let's be charitable, and assume he hasn't.  There are quite a lot of
people who turn out, upon inquiry, to be posting doubled copies of all
mail (once in plaintext, once in verbose HTML markup below that) mostly
because they either aren't aware of that, or have no idea how not to.

http://expita.com/nomime.html has instructions on how to disable
MIME-doubled ASCII + HTML mode for all common MUAs (which is why Eric
Raymond and I hyperlink to it in our on-line essay "How to Ask Questions
the Smart Way").  My recollection is that Richard uses some Mozilla or
Netscape mailer for Win32, so the following specific link will likely
help (assuming he _wishes_ to use that information):

http://expita.com/nomime.html#mozilla11

In any event, I offer up that link pro bono publico, as I've found it
helpful in many forums.

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