From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 24 17:33:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-92-93.knology.net [24.214.92.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A8437B416 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 17:33:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAP1XgU18350 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:33:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200111250133.fAP1XgU18350@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: I hate HTML email (was: Re: Traditionalist Installation) In-reply-to: Message from Mike Meyer of "Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:54:41 CST." <15360.16721.989725.169416@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:33:42 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer writes: > > First suggestion - you tend to get better responses if you send one > copy of the message as plain text, not one as plain text and one as > HTML as you did. Worst of all is to send just the HTML, as many spam > filters kick such out. The worstest thing you could do, which I suspect the latest Outlook Express has for default because its getting much more common, is to not only send HTML but to also base64 encode the HTML. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message