At 12:23 3/14/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I don't think the sender INTENDS to send out HTML. If you really look
>close at such messages, you will see an actual message....
>buried amongst the tags....which, when read on a client like Eudora or
Netscape,
>look fairly normal....it
>contains a plaintext version of the message AND the HTML-ified version,
>which is what your plaintext email reader is seeing while Eudora and
>Netscape can pick out the plaintext version.
That's it. MIME-enabled clients read the MIME part; MSIE4 reads the HTML
part; MS-Outlook and Outlook Express I _think_ offer the choice between the
two. Microsoft no longer considers flat-ASCII mail to be an important
fraction of the traffic.
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Received on Sat Mar 14 1998 - 14:16:43 GMT