Email formats (Was: Re: IE's FTP client)

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From: Ann Barcomb
Subject: Email formats (Was: Re: IE's FTP client)
Date: 09:50 on 26 Oct 2004
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Peter da Silva wrote:

> > So why do people assume that my mail application displays HTML, or that
> > I want it to?
> Be careful what you wish for.
>
> I regularly get small otherwise-plain-text messages in Word, PDF, and
> Powerpoint format, and occasionally Excel.

I wasn't aware I was wishing for anything, except perhaps for people to
write plaintext emails.

At work I get all that sort of junk, but at home I have my spamassassin
rules to automatically bin anything which is more than 80% HTML, so I
don't have that problem.  Word, Powerpoint, Excel and PDF can be manually
binned if needed, but I don't see them except as attachments.

- A
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