Proper quoting (was RE: Critical uptime question (Was ...))

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The honourable and venerable Kenneth Brody spoke thus:
> 
> Does someone have the URL of the article I saw years ago on how to
> configure Outlook to properly quote text?

I don't, although I feel your pain.  However, I have a new gripe.

Now, I flat-out ban text/html -only- email.  I don't mind
multipart/alternative so much, so I let that through.  This is based on the
assumption that the text/plain section will actually contain something.

However, last week--EVERY single post from Transpower had 2
attachments--one text, one html, but the text one was -empty-.  Now I see
this in the mail from Rubio.  I no longer have the Transpower ones, but
this one from Rubio shows multipart/mixed main container type, which is
fine, and then an html segment, and then the list signature file is getting
tacked in as text/plain.

In short, at least in Rubio's case (and I'm guessing Transpower's), they're
sending text/html -only-, and the only reason it's getting translated
to multipart and getting by my filters is because Mailman is adding a
signature.  Which basically means I'd have to write something to check for
an empty text/plain container in order to effectively toss them
automatically.

All of the aforementioned have been deleted unread--excepting the headers
on Rubio's.  I don't see plaintext, I don't read messages on a list.  It's
that simple.

HIGHLY annoying spam, though.  Yes, yes, I know it's technically not; but
for all intents and purposes on this end, their formatting makes it such.

Makes me wish Bill Campbell would nuke the signature on the list.  Nobody
seems to read it anyway based on questions we get, and now it's
facilitating this nonsense.

mark->