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To be fair, the footer unsubscribe link is not something loaded remotely. It is included in the body of the email (I checked the email source). Ideally, a plaintext email client would at least show the label “unsubscribe” and the associated link.
> On Oct 5, 2020, at 10:55 AM, Mark Fishman [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Any email client that displays only plain text instead of HTML will not display the Yahoo Groups HTML-only footer. One such example that has been mentioned on this forum is MUTT.
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> It is of course safer for an email client to display only plain text and not process HTML in emails, because plain text is not active content. It can also be faster than an HTML-capable client. Finally, some people are just old-fashioned and prefer it.
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> The body of these messages appears to be available as both text and HTML. Why the footer is not also in both formats is the real "user-unfriendly" behavior, on Yahoo's part.
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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 9:54 AM Lin Sprague [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> On 10/4/2020 11:58 PM, Michael Gillman [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [EAC] wrote:
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> > Unfortunately some mailers hide the footer with that information. That
> > makes it difficult for those with that kind of mail agent.
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> That's completely user-unfriendly, or worse. Why would a mailer do that?
> There's bound to be important information there. A mailer should NEVER
> alter the content of an email unless the user chooses for it to do so.
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> Do we know what mailers do that? Has anyone seen that behavior in
> action? Can it be controlled with a setting?
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