Re: [MLUG] HTML Coding on Mailing List

[Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Now that you bring this up, I've been wondering about something lately:
I use Evolution and, especially recently, have gotten messages from many
of you on the list and from elsewhere, that come through with horrible,
tiny, illegible fonts.

I've tried aliases and changing the fonts in gnomecc, and everything
that makes the tiny-hideous font readable turns everything else to crap.
I've noticed that the message source often shows text/html and M$
Exchange on the ugly messages, but some text/html/exchange messages seem
to display properly.

Is this probably related to the HTML encoding you are talking about
here, or maybe something with evolution/gnome, or both?

Thanks,
Dave




On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 15:51, Rick Buford wrote:
> 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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