[ih] spam...

[David P. Reed]

At 02:53 PM 1/20/2003 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Reputedly there are now filters in place on the list -- I suggest that
>HTML tags be added to the filter list.

Some of us aren't Luddites who fear every innovation like the villagers in 
Frankenstein.  HTML is a very useful standard for encoding information, and 
is no more related to spam than are source addresses in East Asian 
countries.  And further, it is open, and not proprietary, unlike PDF.

My email system (Eudora) lets me express things in HTML that cannot be 
expressed in ASCII, and my email filtering lets me manage spam in HTML as 
well..

Perhaps HTML mail should be scrutinized more effectively and discouraged by 
social convention except when it is the most useful way to convey points.