Sorry... really... I'm an idiot...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:13:30AM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> Yes, I usually see something like:
> 
> <offlist>

<nit>
Note that using angle brackets (notwithstanding that I'm using them
here for humorous effect) isn't necessarily safe for this: people
reading email on (ill-advised) HTML email readers may not see such a
tag if it's enclosed within angle brackets, because such mail readers
may parse the tag, and eat it whole (since it's unrecognizable, and
that's what you do with unrecognizable HTML tags).

That's not the best thing fot an HTML renderer to *do* when parsing
email, but what can you do.

This is why HTML email is A Bad Thing.

Cheers,
-- jra
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