Re: [MLUG] HTML Coding on Mailing List

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

as somebody who used to suffer from this, I'll toss out a comment. I 
tried every possible option that I could find both in Outlook and using 
what limited administrative powers I used to have over our Exchange 
server to stop the HTML/plain-text outbound emails from work. Nothing 
worked. No matter what format I chose, Exchange would convert it to 
something other than plain text and send it on out.

My solution was to enable imaps on my server at home and connect via 
Mozilla's mail client. Works like a champ (as long as CenturyTel doesn't 
reassign my IP midstream)...

If you are trapped behind Exchange, there may be nothing you can do 
about it.

Rick

Mark Rages wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:24:00PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Neil Bradshaw wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I know this might seem like whinning or whatnot, but is there anyway
>>>that those using HTML encoding in their e-mails please turn them off for
>>>people who use Pine, Mutt, or some other mail client that doesn't handle
>>>HTML well or even at all?
>>
>>
>>Let me add a comment to Neil's request:  Those messages always, or nearly
>>always, come in both HTML and text formats.  I noticed one recent, short
>>message that was 39 lines of text (more than it needed to be!) and a
>>whopping 159 lines of HTML.  It was about 8 kilobytes, but it only
>>contained a single sentence of information.
>>
>>I say, along with Neil -- turn off the html unless you need it.  It's
>>mostly just a way to add useless garbage to a message.
>>
>>Mike
>>
> 
> 
> Is there a technical solution to this problem? Have the mailing list 
> software discard the html part of multipart emails, and "lynx -dump" the 
> HTML-only emails.
> 
> All we would lose is the gratuitous "formatting".
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
> 
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