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Valdis Kletnieks <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 30 May 2001 22:15:07 -0400
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On Wed, 30 May 2001 18:02:41 CDT, Paul Russell <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> An HTML message sent using a properly configured email client should contain
> a content type header which identifies the message as 'multipart/alternative',

There are those who would hold that this use of multipart/alternative is
a crock, because either the plain and htlm parts are of identical content,
in which case the html is redundant, or the html expresses things that
are not in the plain version - at which point you should send ONLY the
html version to eliminate the possibility of only getting "half the message".

> REQUESTED CHANGE:
> -----------------
> The use of 'Language=NoHTML' in a list configuration should result in the
> rejection of a single part message with the content type of 'text/html',
> accompanied by an error message to the sender of the message.

However, I do agree with your request - at least partly because by the
logic above, we should see *more* text/html as an top-level body part.

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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