From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26257 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: HTML recognition Date: 06 Nov 1999 21:56:59 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163501 18478 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:25:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11555 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 15:56:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB23853; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 14:56:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 06 Nov 1999 14:56:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12585 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 14:56:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [193.69.4.139]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11550 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 15:55:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA22640 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 21:57:59 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 941921878 21389 193.69.4.148 (6 Nov 1999 20:57:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Nov 1999 20:57:58 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Robert Wyatt's _Shleep_: "Heaps of Sheeps" User-Agent: Gnus/5.07009801 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98.1) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > I've had great success using > (setq mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext")) > because just about all HTML mails include a plaintext alternative > (which raises the question, why bother with the HTML?). The MIME RFCs says that the default should be to display the "best" alternative. The best is the richest, I think. > The only time this has failed was when the alternatives were text/plain > and multipart/related - the HTML was inside the Related (the idiot had > included an image - presumably a company logo - in his/her spam). You need to discourage multipart/related, I think. Hm. Does that work? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen