At 19:36 -0500 11/27/2001, Paul Tomblin wrote:
Is there any way to suppress those "List*" headers. One of the people on my mailing lists is complaining that they seem to be forcing his email to be HTML. (He uses Eudora.)
I don't see Eudora forcing my mail to be HTML because of the List* headers. But I'm speaking of the Macintosh version; the Windows version could well do something foolish like that.
[I have Eudora...both platforms...set to send plain text mail and to prompt me if I foolishly try to send HTML (by forgetting to hold down Shift when I paste styled stuff in, for example). The default in the prompt is plain text. I don't remember deliberately sending HTML except as a test.]
Eudora is a nuisance with respect to the List* headers, since it just displays them. It's "easy" to shut off the display (I keep List-Post: and suppress the others), on either platform. But it's only easy for a Eudora user who has done it before. Given that Qualcomm was rather deeply involved in the relevant RFC, it seems odd that they haven't started handling List* headers sensibly. [But perhaps it's not at all odd to an insider who does Qualcomm budgets.]
--John
-- John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA