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 Message-ID: <363e6082.6179777@news3.banet.net> References: <199810300322 DOT WAA20999 AT indy DOT delorie DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.100.113.117 X-Trace: 3 Nov 1998 01:53:18 GMT, 32.100.113.117 Organization: IBM.NET Lines: 19 X-Notice: Items posted that violate the IBM.NET Acceptable Use Policy X-Notice: should be reported to postmaster AT ibm DOT net X-Complaints-To: postmaster AT ibm DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie 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. ---------------------------------------------------- Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT nospam DOT dorsai DOT org OR pjfarley AT nospam DOT banet DOT net)