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Carlos E. R. said the following on 07/07/2012 05:38 PM:
But the comment was aimed at saying that there are scopes where html email is the norm, it is not a whole-sized evil :-)
Perhaps the question was badly phrased. Try this. Under what circumstances would HTML be absolutely and unequivocally *NECESSARY* on this list. Or Elsewhere. Someone commented that he had received advertising/spam in plain text, not HTML. Yes, I have too. This demonstrates HTML is not *necessary* for advertising or spam :-) However if you want to deceive users as in <a href=bad site"> Good Site </a> then HTML absolutely and unequivocally *IS* necessary. In Thunderbird I can set to 'display plain text only'. If the message is *only* HTML then I can conclude that the sender hasn't bothered wit a plain text segment under MIME and is ether and idiot/incompetent or has other, perhaps malicious, intent. The mail gets deleted. Mail from my bank etc etc *does* have a plain text segment. Any necessary links are there as well and are clearly URLs with no 'disguise'. If a friend sends me mail with an embedded rather than an attached picture I can *choose* to view as 'original html'. But as for HTML replacing plain text "absolutely and unequivocally *NECESSARY*" under all conditions: NO WAY! -- Quoniam Stercus Accidit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org