- From: Tina Marie Holmboe <tina@elfi.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:22:18 +0200
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>, "WAI (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:18:27PM -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > Unfortunately, because HTML provides the ability to incorporate structure, > multimedia, hyperlinks (real ones, not just guesses) and such useful features > that relying on the fact nobody much uses it today as a spam filter is also > denying ourselves the possibility of more accessible, usable mail. Well. No :) The problem arises with letters that have a content-type of "text/html" *only*. If a letter is properly coded (MIME) using a content-type of multipart/alternative where *one* of the parts is text/html or text/richtext, then all is well. The spammers tend to do the first - which is quite crunchable. REAL letters would provide one highly fancy HTML version, and one easily accessible RFC 822 type letter (plain text) as an alternative. The client which is able to show all the fancy gadgets can then do so at will. -- - Tina Holmboe Greytower Technologies tina@greytower.net http://www.greytower.net/ [+46] 0708 557 905
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