Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 13:10:26 Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:51:19 Dale wrote:
> >>> As for the guy who suggested a form of "sanitized HTML for email",
> >>> maybe you would like
> >>> "enriched text"
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text
> >>
> >> Someone who put it better than I could.  I use HTML elsewhere but out of
> >> respect for the list and those who use it, I use text only, try not to
> >> send anything huge and put links in a way that should work for
> >> everybody.  Maybe I am just a pushover?  It's not like I own the list or
> >> anything either.  :/
> >
> > Now if everyone would use HTML mail like you do, there wouldn't be any
> > problems with it :-)
> >
> > My personal bug-bear with HTML mail is the use of MS Comic Sans...
>
> Mine should be text.  I have Seamonkey set to send text only to anything
> gentoo.org or kde.org.
>
> I can't check myself since gmail doesn't send me a copy back.  Is gmail
> overriding my local setting?  Tell me it ain't so?

No, your mail is just fine - good old plain text. When I said "your mail" I 
meant in the larger context, like "if only the idiots at work would use HTML 
mail sanely, like how Dale says he uses it when away from the list"

I routinely get HTML mail from the idiots who man our support desk, which 
contain:

a. one word of information - "Thanks"
b. 100k of the entire conversation up to that point, every single disclaimer 
from every single mail in the thread intact, 3 jpgs with the company logo and 
slogan, plus assorted stupid motivational platitudes from whatever church the 
sender happens to attend.

One day I'm going to make good on my usual threat, and actually really make 
their mailbox go away :-)

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