Chad Perrin wrote:
[snip]
I currently use Mutt (a CLI email client), but not long ago I was
getting list traffic through Thunderbird (a GUI email client). Even so,
I was using "simplified HTML" settings that did not display images at
all. The end result was that all that prettified HTML formatting
spammers used was gone, as were inlined images. Although Thunderbird
did a reasonably good job of turning HTML email into what looked like
text-only email, it still rendered some HTML-formatted email into
gibberish. Luckily, what it handled fairly well was email produced in
email clients that had HTML formatting turned on by default -- which is
all I really needed it to do, so that I could read emails from people
who just didn't know any better.
[snip]
Spam filters are fairly good these days. Thunderbird disables all images
in HTML by default, unless you click "display" or add the sender to your
address book, and HTML is disabled in spam by default.
Anyway, since quite a few email clients autolink things in plaintext
emails, you could probably get away with sending it out as a bunch of
links. Now if only their was an email client that would render Mediawiki
markup...
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