I use Netscape Messenger primarily, and in this day and age I usually have the
"View attachments inline" option turned off, which prevents any HTML from being
displayed automatically upon viewing the message.  I don't know if other mail
clients provide such an option -- if they don't, the recommended change makes
sense in my opinion.  It would at least give list owners some added peace of
mind, and it seems it would make the behavior of the NOHTML option more
consistent.  (Although L-Soft does document the reason why this setting doesn't
affect single-part HTML mailings.)

Kathy Montgomery
University at Albany

Paul Russell wrote:

> The use of 'Language=NoHTML' in a list configuration results in the removal
> of the 'text/html' part of a message only if the message is identified as
> 'multipart/alternative' and contains both 'text/plain' and 'text/html' parts.
> If the message is a single part message, 'Language=NoHTML' has no effect,
> regardless of the content type. This implementation may reduce the volume of
> data stored in list archives and transmitted to list subscribers, however, it
> ignores security concerns which are likely to prompt the use of this feature.
> Recent incidents have highlighted the ease with which HTML can be used for
> malicious purposes in both web pages and email messages.