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I'll keep that in mind when I am sending email to the list from |
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Thunderbird. I'm also aware that many corporations block HTML mail to |
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lower the risk of a staff member opening up an infected/laced email |
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(generally on a Windows computer) so text emails are more advantageous |
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in that regard. |
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Randy, why aren't you out here making sure everyone's mom is aware of |
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all the thread hijacking going on? |
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-Hal |
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Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On Friday 11 January 2008, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Qian Qiao wrote: |
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>>>> I'm sorry this goes OT Dale, but unfortunately, my mail client |
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>>>> cannot render html messages properly, and I trust a lot of people |
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>>>> on the list have the same problem. If would be nice if you can post |
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>>>> in plain text, at least in this list. |
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>>>> Thanks |
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>>> I have it set to send it text for this domain. Is it not sending in |
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>>> plain text? I have the same settings for other mailing lists as |
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>>> well. |
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>>> Thanks for pointing it out if it is not sending plain text tho. |
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>> It's sent multipart, so the pure text can be used alone for users like |
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>> Qian Qiao. That's how I've set up my kmail (I can view it as html if I |
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>> wish) |
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>> To be honest, it's not really a big deal for a list like this. The text |
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>> is 492 bytes, the html is 867 bytes and the whole thing is 4.5k |
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>> In other words, the text and html *together* are still smaller than the |
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>> headers :-) |
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> True, but I do try to "go with the flow" here. I use Seamonkey for my |
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> email. I went to "Edit" and "Preferences" then chose "Send formats". |
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> I place gentoo.org in the text only section. What else can I do to |
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> make sure it sends it correctly? I do prefer to send it text only |
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> since some do use some strange email programs. |
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> Thanks |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) :-) |
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