VMs: Re: New mailing list address -- possibly short-term

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 21:53 08/03/02 +0000, Grant C Covell wrote:
> Logging into one's own preferences on the Yahoo Group's page allows you to
> choose between html and txt. Html is the default for all users in a group,
> and to change the setting each user must individually go to the yahoo page
> (and if not already registered with yahoo, then sign in). Offhand, I
> remember that this particular toggle took a bit to find.

I think you'll find if you look a little more closely that what you 
actually choose between in the options is whether you want either (a) to 
receive incoming mails as they were originally sent (ie, text or HTML), or 
(b) to receive all incoming mails as if they had been sent as HTML.

What this means is: if someone sends an HTML mail (and many email programs 
now have this as their default), yahoo can (and often does) add an HTML 
advert to it. Or, if you ask it to automatically convert all your mail to 
HTML (like you, I don't have this option enabled), this could be true of 
all your yahoogroups incoming mail.

Therefore: if *everyone* in a yahoogroup remembered to only send text mail, 
then, yes, it would function as you describe, without these ghastly 300x200 
HTML adverts getting appended at all.

However, the chances of this are fairly slim. :-(