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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Campaign for plain text (only) emails}}<br />
The '''ASCII ribbon''' campaign was an [[Internet meme|Internet phenomenon]] started in 1998 advocating that [[email]] be sent only in [[plain text]], because of inefficiencies or [[HTML email#Security vulnerabilities|dangers of using HTML email]]. Proponents placed [[ASCII art]] in their [[signature block]]s, meant to look like an [[awareness ribbon]], along with a message or link to an advocacy site:<br />
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/\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments</pre><br />
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==History==<br />
Following the development of [[Microsoft]] [[Windows 95]], standards adherents became annoyed that they were receiving email in HTML and non-human-readable formats. The first known appearance of a ribbon in support of the campaign was in the signature of an email dated 17 June 1998 by Maurício Teixeira of Brazil.<ref>{{Citation |url = http://arc.pasp.de/|title = ASCII Ribbon Campaign — against HTML mail, vCards and proprietary formats|publisher = Pasp|place = [[Germany|DE]]|date = 2002-12-23|orig-date = 2000|accessdate = 2013-02-04|first = Patric|last = Sperling}}.</ref> Two groups of pursuers, Asciiribbon.org and ARC.Pasp.DE, differ in their attitudes towards [[vCard]].<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Simple Mail Transfer Protocol]]<br />
*[[MIME]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Citation |url=http://www.asciiribbon.org/ |title=The ASCII Ribbon Campaign |access-date=2020-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311081242/http://www.asciiribbon.org/ |archive-date=2010-03-11 |url-status=dead }}.<br />
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[[Category:Awareness ribbon]]<br />
[[Category:Email]]<br />
[[Category:ASCII art]]<br />
[[Category:1990s in Internet culture]]</div>Admin