Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-07 Thread s. keeling
Chris Bannister : > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:07:51PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: > > > > > While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as > > > alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the actual HTML code. > >

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:07:51PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: > > > While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as > > alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the actual HTML code. > > Not unless it's terribly misc

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

2009-06-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30.05.09 18:51, s. keeling wrote: > Subject: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve > performance on laptop?) > > This is a mailing list. The text is all that's needed. Thanks. gmail even breaks plaintext parts of quoted text - even text writ

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:32:15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > So, even in GUI-based mail clients HTML shows up as the actual HTML code., > but only if they are properly configured (or terribly misconfigured [1]). > > [1] It's a matter of opinion, but I'm guessing that's what Andrei would call >

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 22:32:15 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Most of the time I ignore any message to a mailing list that shows > unrendered HTML. Most of the time I ignore any message that shows unrendered HTML. It's just too much effort to read and none of my friends does it to me. Lisi

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a2544d6.4090...@l33tmyst.com>, Harry Rickards wrote: >On 06/02/09 15:53, Nuno Magalhães wrote: >>> [html makes your posts ugly and difficult to read.] >> >> I'd say that's a matter of opinion... However i agree that mail should >> be in simple text, especially if the list rules say so. > >Whil

Fwd: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-02 Thread Harry Rickards
Sorry, I forgot to send it to the list. On 2 Jun 2009, at 20:07, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the actual HTML code. Not unless

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: > While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as > alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the actual HTML code. Not unless it's terribly misconfigured ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

2009-06-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:53:50 +0100 Nuno Magalhães wrote: Hello Nuno, > However, while browsing the settings for my gmail account, i found > nothing pertaining the outgoing format (except for Unicode). Any > suggestions? It's not in the settings, but at the top of the compose/reply message text a

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-02 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/09 15:53, Nuno Magalhães wrote: >> [html makes your posts ugly and difficult to read.] > > I'd say that's a matter of opinion... However i agree that mail should > be in simple text, especially if the list rules say so. > While I use Thunder

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

2009-06-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 16:07, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Right above the editing box, you have the option of 'Rich Formatting' > or 'Plain Text'. Ah! That... always off (i.e. plain text) :) sorry, forgot it existed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

2009-06-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
2009/6/2 Nuno Magalhães : >> [html makes your posts ugly and difficult to read.] > > I'd say that's a matter of opinion... However i agree that mail should > be in simple text, especially if the list rules say so. > > However, while browsing the settings for my gmail account, i found > nothing pert

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

2009-06-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> [html makes your posts ugly and difficult to read.] I'd say that's a matter of opinion... However i agree that mail should be in simple text, especially if the list rules say so. However, while browsing the settings for my gmail account, i found nothing pertaining the outgoing format (except fo

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

2009-05-30 Thread JoeHill
s. keeling wrote: > This is a mailing list. The text is all that's needed. Thanks. > > > [html makes your posts ugly and difficult to read.] Okay, I wasn't going to say anything cuz I'm usually so shy (har), but that's a big second from me. gmail, yahoo, all those, please tone it down. Pleas

[OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

2009-05-30 Thread s. keeling
Michael Yang : [snip] This is a mailing list. The text is all that's needed. Thanks. [html makes your posts ugly and difficult to read.] -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://