XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:07:30 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2025/12/15 8:56:53, R.Wieser wrote:   
   >> Take for instance the kid who *purposely* posted HTML-ed messages, with the   
   >> text part of it replaced with a demand we use a HTML-capable newsgroup   
   >> readers. Quite the bit of arrogant barf (since using ES I have not seen him   
   >> anymore.  Likely ES has banned HTML posts for (text only) newsgroups like   
   >> these ones).   
   >   
   >It's not just some "kid"; I've had companies that do same in emails.   
   >Some even just say something like "we have tried to contact you in   
   >words-and-pictures ..." in the plain-text part. The worst are ones where   
   >their _system_ is sending two-part emails, but the person _sending_ them   
   >has no idea that that's what's happening, and is unable to comprehend   
   >when you try to explain. That's just about tolerable when it actually   
   >works, but one large company (I think it was FindMyPast, a genealogy   
   >company) had such a system for their newsletters that was _broken_ - the   
   >plain text part (which I was reading by default) was stuck at sending   
   >out the newsletter from one particular issue. I was asking them why they   
   >were telling me about (e. g.) special offers that only had a few days to   
   >run, and eventually they were telling me about them after they'd expired   
   >(or events after they were over); of course, the people with whom I were   
   >corresponding had no idea, and claimed the error was at my end.   
      
   Most HTML-only emails are spam, or designed to look like spam. I   
   sometimes get emails from banks and the like formatted to look as much   
   like spam as possible, so I'm perpetually having to fish them out of   
   spam queues -- they use lazy HTML, and other spammers tricks like   
   one-pixel codes to let them know if you've read them.   
      
   My mail reader is setot read plain-text by default, and only to   
   display HTML if there isn't a plain-text version. But it will not   
   display "lazy HTML" -- ie parts of the message that are not part of   
   the message, but have to be fetched from a remote web site. It just   
   displays those as greyed-out blanks.   
      
   This might annoy the whizz-kid web designers, but email is not a web   
   page, and so far it has kept me safe from a lot of the malware that   
   uses all those tricks.   
      
      
      
      
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   Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa   
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