> > If wishing made it so [...]
>
> The problem is exactly that-- wishing doesn't make it so.

Yep, that was the point.


> If people genuinely care, then (IMHO) they should *do* something about

Not everyone has administrative access to ``fix'' the mailing lists.
(This is probably a good thing.)  Those who do certainly can be excused if
they have more important things to attend to---but by suggesting a ``good
desired effect'' (bounce HTML and quoted-printable; warn on FidoNet-style
long-lines) and having a number of people support it, there's a chance
that someone with the skill, access, and time will do something.

I could probably do *something*, but I wouldn't promise that it would be a
good implementation.  (^&  But, it's not ``the NetBSD way'' to put up a
half-baked solution.  (I really don't know the best way to reliably
seperate email-as-HTML from email-that-may-use-HTML[-like]-text.  Maybe I
just want to tell you how to make a <ul>, or similar.  You don't want to
thow the baby out with the bath-water, and there are probably some good
tools (of which I am ignorant) that can handle this efficiently and
effectively.)


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu