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Old 04-29-2008, 05:02 PM
Sebastian G.
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Default Re: Help with AVG Anti-virus email scanning

Ertugrul Söylemez wrote:


> What's wrong with HTML emails without remote content?


<!doctype stupid><html><head><meta name="foo"
content="bar"><title>baz</title></head><body><p>Nothing, it's very readible
if the receiver's client doesn't support HTML.</body></html>

> Why the unnecessary inconvenience with ZIP files? I understand that in some
> places (e.g. newsgroups) HTML mails are inappropriate, but why this
> generalization?



Because there's no standard for it, neither de-jure nor de-facto? because
there is a standard to include some basic formatting (text/enriched)?
Because it's a waste or bandwidth? Because eMail isn't supposed to emit any
formatting? Because HTML is meant for hypertext, not formatted documents?

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