At 09:41 5/6/2007 Sunday, Douglas Palmer wrote:

>This has to be a FAQ somewhere -- LISTSERV does not modify the content of messages. If you want links to be clickable, you euther need to send them that way (in HTML format) or have a client that will recognize such links for you and present them that way (or pre-process them in some fashion before LISTSERV receives the message).

Literally true, BUT what then does LANGUAGE= NOHTML mean to a message that is sent in multipart/alternative?  IMO, it "modifies" the message transmission ...


http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8e/owner/owner.html 

Language= NOHTML: This setting allows you to specify that LISTSERV strip any HTML attachments from postings (while retaining HTML tags sent in the body of plain text messages). You specify either Language= NOHTML or Language= idiom,NOHTML to enable this feature.

 

The actual function of this setting is to remove the attachment that contains the HTML mail from the message. It does not remove HTML tags from plain text messages. This means that setting this option will not suppress HTML in messages sent from (for instance) Eudora Pro 3.x (since Eudora Pro 3.x does not send the HTML message as a MIME attachment with a plain text alternative). 

 

In 1.8e and following, if an HTML message does not contain a plain text alternative, and Language= NoHTML is set, the message will be rejected.  This is a change from the behavior in 1.8d, which would allow such messages through.