>David Wheeler is a self-professed Linux newbie, attempting to install
>Redhat for the first time. Singling him out--however gently--seems to
>me a bigger breach of etiquette than sending email in html form. Not
>the kind of welcome one would hope to get from an open-source community.
I believe that the message needed to go out, as it does every now and then
because new users are joining the fold all the time. Not using anyone's name
probably would have been better.
>If you use a good old Linux mailer like mutt and w3m to process html
>mail and procmail to sort mailing lists instead of using a digest--it
>all comes out looking like vanilla text. Since I switched to mutt, I
>no longer seethe with irritation over html mail. Far easier to deal
>with it on your end (you can) than to pursuade the great big
>ever-expanding world to follow precise email etiquette (they won't).
I use elm. When I read text/html messages, I get the text portion. When
the idiotic user only sends HTML e-mail, it is shown to me as raw HTML,
since there was a MIME enclosed plain text portion. When I respond to
combo text/html, I am given the whole message, which looks like crap.
How does mutt handle html only e-mail. How does mutt handle replying to
combo plaintext/html e-mail?
BTW, you could have trimmed the html e-mail example. Leaving all that
crap in a response is as bad as sending out html e-mail.
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