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flat ascii, please

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Sun Apr 18 19:20:10 2004 
this gibberish...

  >Spamming is pervasive mainly due to the inattention or failure to enforc=
  e=0D
  >acceptable use policies by the service provider.  =0D
   =0D

...is unreadable, and so is...

  <DIV>&gt;Spamming is pervasive mainly due to the inattention or failure t=
  o enforce</DIV>
  <DIV>&gt;acceptable use policies by the service provider.&nbsp;&nbsp;</DI=
  V></DIV>
  <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>

...this.  if you're on this mailing list, please configure your user
interface to output 79-column ascii card images, with no =foo or html.

if or when [email protected] moves to a different format, it'll likely be jabber
rather than html or richtext.
-- 
Paul Vixie