[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Distro

[Rick Matthews]

MadHat wrote:
> 
> Please understand that
> when you send an HTML message, many people here are using text based
> mail clients and they have trouble reading the message because of the
> HTML tags, as well as the concerns over bandwidth usage for those of us
> that pay for bandwidth or have slow connections.

Why is it that computing has made tremendous advances in the last
8 to 10 years, and yet this argument never seems to change?  By now, 
you'd think that the "text-only" list manager would be able to set
a parameter that would automatically convert html to text, or 
failing that, bounce the message back to the sender with an 
explanation and a few links with info on how to fix it.  What's wrong
with those choices? Bounce it, convert it, or accept it as it is.

> As for turning it off,
> you did send me an email and I said it sent me HTML as well (and you
> were surprised when I told you), but I don't know Outlook, or OE well
> enough to help you turn it off.  

I'm using Outlook 2000 in Internet mail only (IMO) mode, and my 
headers include:
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0)
How do you know that he is using Outlook?  His x-mailer line is:
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
and I thought that was a server thing, not a client thing.

In Outlook, go to Contacts, select NTLug Discuss (or whatever it is),
and under the email address there is a box that can be checked:
<Send using plain text>.


Rick








> Try looking here, see if it helps:
> http://www.infj.org/htmlexplanations.html  (googled page)
> 
> As far as people being rude, some people are terse, as I can be, but I
> don't think that many people are meaning to be rude.  Also remember that
> when using email you lose very important things like body language and
> inflection which help convey a lot of the meaning, so what you may
> consider rude may have been intended to be a joke, humorous or just a
> simple statement, but the feeling (or lack of) was lost from one person
> typing to another person reading.  As far as I know everyone here is
> here to learn or help others.
> 
> -- 
> MadHat at Unspecific.com
> `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
> `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
>    -- Lewis Carroll - _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_
> 
> 
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