Quote Originally Posted by 1project2many View Post
Around 2001 or so people were switching from primarily text based email with occasional attachments to HTML based email. These would come through the diy-efi mailer daemon as an HTML attachment or a little text with with large amounts of non-text data included. The archives were automatically stored as text at the end of each month and they were getting clogged with garbage. So a few of us got together and worked hard to trim out any non-text portions of the messages including HTML attachments.
Wow, that *is* old-school. I just let mailman do all the work now :)