On Thu, 16 May 2002 at 12:22:56AM -0400, Tom Rawson wrote: > On 15 May 2002 Deborah Shaw wrote: > > > Actually, I pay much less attention to HTML mail. I open, see that it's > > HTML, close, delete. I don't have time to examine it to pick the message > > out of the artwork, and I won't take the time. > > I'm with Deborah. Virtually all (95%+) of the HTML email I receive is > spam anyway. The one exception is stuff from hotmail users who have rich HTML trips the clueless flag for me, much as very bad grammar does. Like you and Deborah, I tend to trash HTML mail without reading it. However, there are MUAs (e.g,.Mutt) that allow the user to choose a filter for HTML (or anything else that is properly MIME identified). Here's part of my .mailcap file: #text/html; lynx -force_html -dump '%s'; copiousoutput text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput #text/html; w3m -dump '%s'; copiousoutput #text/html; links %s; needsterminal; nametemplate=%s.html #text/html; netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' image/gif; xv %s image/jpeg; xv %s image/jpg; xv %s application/pgp-keys; pgp -f < %s ; copiousoutput # application/pgp-signature; pgpv < %s ; copiousoutput application/pdf; pdftotext %s -; copiousoutput application/rtf; Ted %s application/msword; catdoc %s; copiousoutput HTML is transparently converted to plain text by w3m with no action on my part. So are PDF, RTF, and M$ Word DOC attachments. Regards, -rex