On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Martin Lichtin wrote: > Tony Nugent wrote: > > > Content-Type: text/html; > > Please do not send this garbage to mailing lists. > > But you sending us X-Face: headers is ok. --------------------------------------- Subject line shift notice ... This is just not mere elitism. Posting HTML content can bear hostile -executable content attacks- and web-bugs come to mind. You had to go looking for the X-Face in the headers. While my choice of mail user agent is set to elide displaying HTML dupe-content, not all can. /// Putting aside the clear and long counter-preference to HTML and attachments in mailing lists and the well-known arguments there ... The mailing list and indeed your local mail choice can elide headers to your heart's content, and no-one will complain. When it is in the body, as alternative MIME encoded HTML and the various variants are, -- attachments also come to mind -- it is not possible to reliably elide them on an automated bassis -- GPG/PGP signings get broken depending on that tool's decisions on boundries, which are not as well defined as the Header/Body split. -- Russ Herrold
