In article <ob38m1$lnj$
1@n102.xanadu-bbs.net>, Davey wrote:
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It is quite common for EMail programs to send an EMail in two different formats, typically HTML and plain text, so that a recipient with a
fancy EMail package that can display HTML will see the pretty formatted
version while anyone using a plain text program (or who has HTML turned
off for some good reason) will see the plain text version.
Such a message is called a "multipart/alternative" message, and is
defined in RFC1521 (and later revisions).
I sometimes receive bulk EMails that are sent as multipart/alternative,
and whose HTML part contains a full, formatted, EMail message but whose
plain text part just contains a URI for a web-based copy of the
message. This is what happens when the sender is too lazy to produce
two versions of the EMail message, one with fancy HTML formatting and
one without.
Sometimes even the formatted version of the EMail begins with the link
to the web-based version of the EMail ... probably for the benefit of
any recipient whose mail client can understand HTML, but not doesn't
implement frames or scripting or some other relatively advanced
feature. That may be what you're seeing.
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Cheers,
Daniel.
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