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Subject: No HTML in messages!
Hello UBL TC, I think I've mentioned this before, but this time I'd really like everyone to pay attention. Spam filters use increasingly complex and apparently somewhat fragile algorithms in judging which messages to block. Some of them use the simple presence of HTML as a spam indicator (which is not surprising; so do I). I now know of two recent cases in which mail from the UBL TC list has been blocked by spam filters. In one of those cases, I know for a fact that the message was blocked due to the occurrence of HTML markup, and in the other case I strongly suspect the presence of HTML to have been the cause. The second case was particularly unfortunate because a person who needed to review one of our documents was unaware that it had been posted until it was too late to comment. A lot of people aren't even aware that their mail client is creating an HTML version of their message (which also substantially increases its size, but that's a separate problem). Please take a minute to find the HTML setting in your client interface and TURN IT OFF. Whatever benefits you think you're getting from being able to express yourself in purple 12 point Souvenir Bold Italic, it's not worth the increasing risk that your message is not being delivered. This is particularly important in an effort such as ours where silence is taken as consent. Jon
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