[H-GEN] Re: HTML email

[Michael Anthon]

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<snip>
> I'd be more inclined to suspect Outhouse Express myself, but
> then I use Unix tools when writing to Unix interest group
> mailing lists.
<snip>
> Greg (who would like to see these lists drop html message bodies
>       completely and drop html parts from multipart/alternative
>       messages.  It's simple enough to do and improves things
>       for everybody.)
>
You don't see this as a bit narrow minded?  As you said, this is a "Unix
interest group", this is not the same as saying we are a "Unix Zealots
Group" where anyone's decision to use anything other than some flavour of
unix for a particular task is to be disparaged.

I use Linux both at work and at home, I like Linux, but I don't currently
use it on my desktop.  This has more to do with available hardware drivers
for some of my equipment and costly and slow internet access than for any
other reason.  I see nothing wrong with using non-unix tools to participate
in these discussions (that said, HTML email does annoy me a little as it
normally sets the background colour to white and burns the back of my
eyeballs).  Suggesting that "offending" emails be dropped by the list
software is just a bandaid solution (that is not to say that converting the
offending email to text and sending a LART message to the originator would
be a bad idea 8^)

Cheers
Michael

For those who don't use it, OE has 2 settings that affect the outgoing mail
format.  One that says "Send email in text or HTML format" and the other
that says "reply to message in the format in which it was sent".  If you
turn the latter off and set the former to text you always send plain text.
Oh, and it has a setting to wrap outgoing text emails as well.



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