[arch-general] HTML email will be rejected

[Loui Chang]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:02:38PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:04:09 -0600
> Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > I am writing to inform you that I have changed all the Arch lists to
> > reject HTML formatted email. Please send messages in plain text only.
> > 
> > Note: This is true of all lists, but I am only sending this message to
> > the higher trafficked lists.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Aaron
> 
> Any specific reason? afaik html emails are 100% backwards compatible, eg
> those who don't want them can see the txt variant, no?

Well, there's no point in sending them at all if there's a text variant.