Could we please cancel this thread (and not cc it to
wishlist(_at_)microsoft(_dot_)com).
People use formatted email. Whether they need, or want to is besides
the point. They do. No amount of talking is going to set back the
clock to the days of the ascii internet. Let's talk about things
that can actually be changed, not fantasies where clueless "lusers"
don't understand the damage they are doing by sending graphical
smiley faces to their Aunt Lucy, but would happily change their
behavior and start typing in compressed hacker speak if it were just
nicely explained to them. While we're at it--let's explain to them
why they shouldn't litter either--that should be even easier.
And seriously. Even if you believe that blocking HTML is feasible.
It isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference in the amount
of spam that gets sent. Spammers do their best to make their email
look like real email to the end user. If the end user gets email as
plain text, then spammers will send plain text. This isn't rocket
science--it's basic economics.
At that point, Gordon falls back on the argument that at least we
will have saved in the number of *bytes* sent. Which is true. But
saving bytes is not the charter of this group.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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