Formatted vs. plain text mail

[Ed Fletcher]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Solution: set up Mailman to auto-generate a mail containing the list 
> rules to the sender *every*time* they send HTML mail. First sentence 
> is a nice polite "You have sent HTML-formatted mail to a mailing list 
> where the other members would rather you didn't." Include the 
> instructions for getting Outlook to send plain text to specific 
> addresses. Reply-To is set to a dev/null address. Send an HTML mail = 
> receive a please-don't-do-this *every*time*. Sooner or later it sinks 
> in.
> 
> Benefits: The rest of us don't have to explain why it's not 
> appreciated. Flame war potential is reduced. The hassle and 
> irritation moves from the list members onto the HTML originator, 
> where it belongs. 
> 

Is it possible to go a step further and have the html converted to plain
text before it is sent to the list?  The only downside I can think of
would be for e-mails with a gpg signature.  But maybe gpg sigs and html
are a rare combination.

Ed
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