From:	pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Ban HTML postings?
Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 1998 01:53:55 GMT
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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>You know, I could reconfigure my gateway and listserver to reject
>mail/postings of type text/html or multipart/alternative...

Yup, fine by me.  I can read the darn things if I want to use
Netscape's newsreader, which I don't.  I think many of them are from
Internet Exploder (tm) users and folk using Netscape who don't see or
don't properly answer Netscape's kind prompt asking if you want to
send HTML ot text or both (I always say text-only, myself, when I
happen to use their newsreader, which is seldom).

Do be sure (as others here have said) to auto-reply advising them to
change their habits, just to be polite about it.

And thanks for the offer and for all your other efforts.

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT nospam DOT dorsai DOT org OR
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