Here is an example of an
e-mail in which I
intentionally used HTML in e-mail, because
I wanted to include an in-line picture and
show the format of the original text I quoted
(I have slightly extended the original
message below):
X-Sender: jpalme@mail.dsv.su.se (Unverified) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:27:36 +0100 To: ietf-822@imc.org From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> Subject: Allowing MTAs to split messages to different recipients Sender: owner-ietf-822@mail.imc.org List-Archive: <http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/mail-archive/> List-ID: <ietf-822.imc.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:ietf-822-request@imc.org?body=unsubscribe> I am working on a compendium for a course I give at my university. A controversial text from the compendium is quoted below. If you think that this is wrong, tell me. --- --- start quote --- ---
Mail splitting in relaying MTAs If a sender in Europe
sends a message to two or more recipients
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A problem with this,
however, is that most MTAs are not willing to handle mail, unless either the recipient or the sender is local to the MTA. Thus, the saving shown above requires an agreement with the MTA which splits the message after transport across the Atlantic. This was not always so. In the beginning of the 1990-s, most MTAs were willing to forward mail for any recipient. The reason why this was abolished in the middle of the 1990-s was that spammers used this feature to get foreign MTAs to help them split mail to millions of recipients. Some so-called experts claimed that spamming could be stopped by forbidding splitting of mail by other than the MTA of the sender or the recipient. They enforced their view by implementing a program which scanned all MTAs everywhere, checking that they did not allow foreign splitting, and sending angry letters to non-conforming MTA administrators (postmasters) threatening to stop receiving mail from them unless they stopped splitting. This is an interesting example of how the Internet is regulated in dubious ways by pseudo-police-authorities. Spamming could be counteracted more efficiently using other methods than this. |
Here I am flaming: giving my personal opinion on a controversial issue. Other experts have different opinion on this. |
--- --- end quote --- --- Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/More info on HTML in e-mail.