new all-time low in monthy probe report mails
Hi, the monthly reports for the Atlas probes have received a new lower watermark... now I get mails that have a HTML body "with relevant information", and a text body that has basically boilerplate, and and an unsubscribe link (see below). If you send MIME/Multipart, the different parts MUST be identical to be any useful. If you can't ensure that the text/plain part is meaningful, much better to not include it at all. Unfortunately, the readability of the HTML body also reached a new low - it was sort-of-ok-but-annoying in the last months, now it's the usual "optimized for outlook prettyprinting" with a full page of boilerplate and font definitions, and relevant information buried under tons of HTML tags. This is supposed to be a simple table with useful information, not a marketing brochure where "perfect rendering and colours and fonts" is where everyone gets excited about. Which brings me to "why should I want to support this effort at all anymore, if people so obviously do not care what *I* want?"... gert ----- Forwarded message from RIPE Atlas <atlas+3616a83f@ripe.net> ----- Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:06:24 +0000 From: RIPE Atlas <atlas+3616a83f@ripe.net> To: Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Subject: Monthly probe report for probe #50014 v4 beta probe??? **RIPE NCC** Stationsplein 11, 1012 AB, Amsterdam This email was sent to gert@space.net You've received this email because you are registered as a RIPE Atlas probe host. [Unsubscribe](https://r.bulk-email.ripe.net/tr/un/SJYBU8c0ZIM62k2wnWdTQrAVQmHmeT0IQQ8UWsBt...) ----- End forwarded message ----- Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Karin Schuler, Sebastian Cler Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: Dr. Frank Thiäner D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279
the monthly reports for the Atlas probes have received a new lower watermark... now I get mails that have a HTML body "with relevant information", and a text body that has basically boilerplate, and and an unsubscribe link (see below).
last week's UI change allows you to specify html/text randy
Hi, On Sat, Aug 01, 2026 at 10:09:24AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
the monthly reports for the Atlas probes have received a new lower watermark... now I get mails that have a HTML body "with relevant information", and a text body that has basically boilerplate, and and an unsubscribe link (see below).
last week's UI change allows you to specify html/text
Will test that. I was under the impression that it only affects the "your probe lost contact" mail, not the monthly summaries. Still, a multipart e-mail should never ever include a text/plain part that has significantly different information from the text/html part. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Karin Schuler, Sebastian Cler Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: Dr. Frank Thiäner D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279
On 8/1/26 at 19:09, Randy Bush wrote:
the monthly reports for the Atlas probes have received a new lower watermark... now I get mails that have a HTML body "with relevant information", and a text body that has basically boilerplate, and and an unsubscribe link (see below).
last week's UI change allows you to specify html/text
But even if HTML is selected, a proper plain-text should be included. BR Daniel AJ
On Sun, 2 Aug 2026, Randy Bush wrote:
last week's UI change allows you to specify html/text But even if HTML is selected, a proper plain-text should be included.
why? and same question would go for the reverse assertion.
If you include text/plain, it should be the same. Otherwise, don't include it at all, so I can convert from text/html. The "your mail client doesn't support html" text/plain part some have, is very rude. I have my mail client configured so it shows text/plain, but if there isn't one, it'll run html->text conversion and display that. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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