John L. Ries wrote:
While the most commonly used mailers all support MIME, many people still use ones that don't (I used to until I started getting so many MIME messages I had to switch),
BTW, supporting MIME is not the same as HTML. My mail client supports MIME, e.g. for attachments, or encryption/signature as OpenPGP/MIME. It can extract the HTML part, and in principle I could read it with a browser. But I have no intention to do so. In most (>>99%) cases, HTML doesn't add anything useful that can't be expressed in plain text (the remaining few cases, e.g. discussion about a particular layout element of the web pages, though these should rather go to gpc-doc, could use an explicit HTML attachment, which is not the same as a multipart message, stating in the message why HTML is attached). Far more often, HTML causes problems or contains some kind of malware. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html GPC download signing key: ACB3 79B2 7EB2 B7A7 EFDE D101 CD02 4C9D 0FE0 E5E8