Without being as pissy about it, I have to agree with both points. First,
there needs to be some indication of subject matter in such a message,
otherwise don't even bother. Second, if sending the message formatted as
HTML (which I would hope is in itself configurable), there needs to be a text
part. In my email client, I choose to view all messages as text and the link
to the article is lost. That may be a limitation of the client in its text
rendering of HTML, but there's very little reason not to send such a simple
HTML message as multipart with text.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Woodcock" <twoodcock@baremetal.com>
To: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: An article has been ignored in T Land
> Hi Elliot,
>
> I gather nothing came of your exploration of your blogware's ability to
> extract parts of a blog message, in particular, the subject line.
>
> I do not know what other people on the list think of this, which is why I
> am posting this publicly this time.
>
> I am about to install a /dev/null filter myself.
> If it is not easy for you to get the subject of the blog in the subject of
> the email, then I suggest that a change to the blogware is in order.
>
> Oh yeah, and why not provide a text part in addition to the html while you
> are at it? Or at least experiment to find a mime format that mail readers
> like pine actually support.. This blogware is supposed to be a tucows
> product isn't it?
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