According to Pete C. :
"DoN. Nichols" wrote:



Some news servers toss into the bit bucket anything with *any*
kind of attachments. (And yes, HTML *is* an attachment.)

HTML is *not* an attachment. HTML may reference an attachment or an
external site, but HTML *is* plain text.

An HTML copy of the text in the article is a separate mime
attachment. It may be plain text, but newsreaders need a way to
distinguish between the HTML and the plain text. My current newsreader
suppresses display of the HTML copy, focusing on the plain text.

And "vcards" (Microsoft's re-invention of the .sig block) tend
to have such mime wrappers.

Now -- it is *possible* to put a chunk of HTML in the middle of
an article in plan text without such a wrapper. In an HTML capable
newsreader, it will do what it was designed to do (which may or may not
be what you would like it to do). In a plain-text-only newsreader, it
will simply look ugly.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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