RE: [MLUG] HTML Coding on Mailing List

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Same here.  The only time I'm forced into HTML is when I'm replying to some
HTML emails.  Not sure how it decides, but sometimes Outlook will decide I
can't change the formatting to plain text when replying.  (Usually to emails
off the list, btw).  It might be due to the "dual format," though.  If an
email comes with both formats, then it would be a simple matter to chose one
over the other, while Outlook might not be able to pull the text out of the
HTML if it wasn't sent dual..

> This is being sent from Outlook 2000, over Exchange 2000. umsystem.edu
> I went into tools > options > Mail Format  in the send the 
> message in this format, I selected plain text for the drop down box.
> I hope that this gets it into plain text.
> and can help all how are bound to exchange.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Mike Pepper
> System Support Analyst
> UM Procurement Services
> (573) 882-5052
> EMAIL:PROTECTED
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: King, Jonathan W. 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 04:11 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] HTML Coding on Mailing List
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Mark Rages wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:24:00PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> >
>    [on the evils of HTML encoding of email, concurring with Neil 
>     Bradshaw...]
> 
> > > 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".
> 
> An easier solution might be to bounce the message back to the sender
> asking for a text only version.  That might sound unfriendly, but
> I'm guessing that this would only happen at most a couple of times
> per sender before all relevant email client configuration issues
> were solved. :-)  For 10 seconds I  worried about the possibility 
> that people would be missing certain included links, until I 
> realized that even pine can deal with those...
> 
> jking
> 
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