[Mailman-Users] html in digests

[alex wetmore]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Lil Peck, QHTimes.com Quarter Horse community wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J C Lawrence" <claw at kanga.nu>
>
> > Please see the online Mailman FAQ with regard to MIME and MIME filters.
> >
> Unfortunately, good ol' AOL makes mincemeat out of either, when receiving
> digests. Put that together with the computer savvy of the general AOL-user,
> and it adds up to lots of bitching, LOL. It wouldn't matter except for the
> popularity of AOL. What I've started doing is collecting the messages from
> one day in a folder, converting them all to plain text and then merging them
> and sending them out as a single digest that way to the Digest recipients.
> However, I personally am very satisfied with Mailman, and am enjoying the
> independence from Yahoo groups. --Lil

The MIME filters (stripmime which I wrote, or demime, or the patches
for mailman) will prevent MIME and HTML from ever hitting your list in
the first place.  The Mailman FAQ has a good entry on this subject.

http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html

There is no reason why you should have to edit digests by hand.

alex