Re: [Mailman-Users] html in digests

2002-03-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:21:42 -0600 Lil Peck wrote: > - Original Message - From: "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Please see the online Mailman FAQ with regard to MIME and MIME >> filters. > Unfortunately, good ol' AOL makes mincemeat out of either, when > receiving digests. Put t

Re: [Mailman-Users] html in digests

2002-03-20 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Lil Peck, QHTimes.com Quarter Horse community wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Please see the online Mailman FAQ with regard to MIME and MIME filters. > > > Unfortunately, good ol' AOL makes mincemeat out of either, when re

Re: [Mailman-Users] html in digests

2002-03-20 Thread Lil Peck, QHTimes.com Quarter Horse community
- Original Message - From: "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please see the online Mailman FAQ with regard to MIME and MIME filters. > Unfortunately, good ol' AOL makes mincemeat out of either, when receiving digests. Put that together with the computer savvy of the general AOL-user,

Re: [Mailman-Users] html in digests

2002-03-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:34:09 -0600 Lil Peck wrote: > I would like to hear about solutions or work-arounds to avoid the html > code that appears in the digests. This is particularly a problem for > my subscribers who have aol addresses. I'm finding it nearly > impossible to train my subscribers

[Mailman-Users] html in digests

2002-03-19 Thread Lil Peck, QHTimes.com Quarter Horse community
I would like to hear about solutions or work-arounds to avoid the html code that appears in the digests. This is particularly a problem for my subscribers who have aol addresses. I'm finding it nearly impossible to train my subscribers to all send their posts as plain text to begin with.--Lil --

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-14 Thread marina
Skip Montanaro wrote: >Can you just change your users' digest settings from plain to MIME digests >for them? Can you make MIME digests the default option for people who >choose to read the digest version of your list? > Yes, Mailman makes this option available in the Web admin interface

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
marina> We are running a list using Mailman 2, where most of the members marina> are totally computer illiterate, and cannot be bothered marina> understanding why or how to change their email settings. marina> As a result, this list digests include huge portions of HTML marin

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, marina wrote: > That's exactly it, Paul. Thank you for explaining it so clearly. > Sure, Python is easy to use and Mailman is well written, but we run > our list on a huge hosting server and we don't have admin privileges. > > Unfortunately, I'm afraid this also means we canno

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread marina
At 11:43 AM -0500 13/12/01 [dmy], you wrote about [Subject] Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?: >Or more likely, he has no control over the installation of the software on >the machine he's running the mailing list. If I let somebody set up a >mailing list on my site, usi

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Greg Ward ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Please consider we have no access to the source code. > > Yes you do! Mailman is open source; everyone has access to the source > code. You may not have the expertise or resources to hack on it, but > that's *not* the same thing. Or more likely, he ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Ward
On 13 December 2001, marina said: > As a result, this list digests include huge portions of HTML coding - > which is perceived as extremely annoying by several users (including > some who choose to use HTML mail, of course). That's a FAQ: see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, marina wrote: > Is there a way to tell Mailman to strip the HTML portions? There are a few different programs which can be installed along with Mailman (or one set of patches for Mailman) that strip HTML and attachments from messages before they are sent to the list. One tha

[Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-12 Thread marina
We are running a list using Mailman 2, where most of the members are totally computer illiterate, and cannot be bothered understanding why or how to change their email settings. As a result, this list digests include huge portions of HTML coding - which is perceived as extremely annoying by se