[thelist] Jeana

[Ben Henick]

On Sat, 12 May 2001, aardvark wrote:

> if your mail client allows it, make sure it always renders list mail as plain 
> text, instead of trying to format any HTML snippets it finds...

This would be the downside of participating in a Web development list.

How do you know that code examples are in fact being rendered in
plaintext, for everybody?

Argh.

There should be a practice for dealing with this.  Ideas, anyone?

I don't have any, but that's because PINE handles this stuff automatically
according to MIME type.


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