[Heathkit] test

[Jim Shorney]

Indeed, plain text is preferred for the best cross-platform compatibility and minimum payload size. IMO HTML/RTF just promote silly stuff. I know my email client doesn't handle them well because it is old and outdated. I like it that way. It also doesn't get infected by malware nor will its address list get stolen. Having written that, if I really want to see what is in one of those messages I know how to get there. If I don't think it is of interest to me I just skip it.

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-Jim
NU0C

On Mon, 7 Aug 2017 19:52:41 -0400, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:

>I think it is worth noting the second bullet from bottom says:

>"Do not send HTML, rich text, or stylized email, or messages in "quoted-printable" format. Not all email programs of list members will recognize such formats. Send messages in Plain Text. "

>It conveys the message that the reason for plain text is consideration for other msg recipients, not because of a limitation inherent in the reflector.

>As I mentioned, I have seen HTML formatted messages transiting other forums on mailman at qth.net without any obvious issues. I just now passed a "rich text" HTML formatted message thru the ARC5 forum, just to be sure. This seems peculiar to Heathkit forum processing.

>Wayne
>WB4OGM 


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