Re: [lojban] DO NOT USE HTML MAIL

[Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Craig wrote:
>
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Content-Type: multipart/alternative; name="unnamed"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description: 
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Content-Type: image/bmp; name="Outlook.bmp"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: 
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Please do not use HTML mail. I saw the following:
«
------=_NextPart_001_0029_01C0F2BF.F313A480
Content-Type: text/plain;
 charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

ti mo


.i ma valsi ti la lojban. .i mi kucli le lojbo valsi



Did I ask that right? I'm wondering how to say 'fractal' in lojban. BTW,
isn't it nonphonemic since we can't pronounce .. to have it possible in
lojban.?
»
and thought at first that "ti" was referring to the MIME coding, then was
puzzled by the reference to the fractal. Then I saw in the HTML code the
following:
«
<DIV><IMG src="cid:580474001@12062001-1e87"></DIV>
»
There is no such protocol, to my knowledge, as "cid:". Then you attached some
file called "Outlook.bmp" which is 750 kilobytes, which expands to 1 megabyte
in base 64 code. An HTML document CANNOT refer to an image in the same file; it
can only refer to an image in a separate file.

Do not use HTML mail.

Do not send huge files to a mailing list.

Do not send BMP or PNM (including PGM, PBM, PPM) files by email without
compressing them.

Got it?

phma