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spgwr (georgia)

On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Roger Bivand wrote:

            
To clarify the above, this is a setting in email clients for outgoing 
email:

http://www.r-project.org/mail.html#instructions

General Instructions

Note that you should configure your e-mail software in such a way as to 
send only plain text, i.e., no HTML. ?html-ified? messages are usually 
considerably longer (in bytes!) and harder to filter for spam or viruses. 
Many of these (e.g. ?html-only? ones) are currently spam-filtered or 
otherwise intercepted completely and without notice to the sender.

The link in the instructions to

http://expita.com/nomime.html

is dead, this is a copy:

http://stagecraft.theprices.net/nomime.html

Another link is:

http://ask-leo.com/whats_the_difference_between_plain_text_and_html_email.html

but has lots of adverts. This is also helpful:

http://email.about.com/od/netiquettetips/qt/When-In-Doubt-Send-Plain-Text-Email-Not-Fancy-Html.htm

Roger
(list admin.)