Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-09 Thread g
On 08/09/2010 03:58 PM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:18 +, g wrote: >> not entirely true. > > Which bit? You quoted nothing. true. i did '' more than i intended. yet from below, it seems that you knew what 'bit' i meant. ;) > e.g. This is a test is the > same as a bare This is a

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-09 Thread g
On 08/09/2010 09:39 AM, Tim wrote: not entirely true. gmail composed op's email, which has already been shown, without above tags. only tagging used was "< b r >". [without spacing.] a few of yahoo emails that i looked at do not contain tags you list. they did contain more than just "< b r >".

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-09 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 03:12 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > So you are saying that I can write just a plain text message, label it > as being html in the header, and the typical mail reader is going to > pretend that any/all missing html tags are there, and then render and > display the message as

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-09 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 03:27 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Aaahhh, well, so you are saying that an e-mail can contain both plain > text version and html version of the same message simultaneously? Yes, that's the main use of multipart/alternative. It means that the message has multiple parts, an

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 19:35 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > Perhaps you'd like to propose this reasoned and conciliatory position to > > the list administrators and propose that the Guidelines be changed. > > Conciliatory? N

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread g
On 08/09/2010 01:54 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> web pages work with 'html format', email works with 'html code'. > > I don't quite understand this. Can you elaborate what exactly is the > difference? web pages have an *RFC* compliant format that begins with, or similar; [spacings added in wo

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread g
On 08/09/2010 02:27 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday, August 09, 2010 03:02:43 Tim wrote: > Aaahhh, well, so you are saying that an e-mail can contain both plain text > version and html version of the same message simultaneously? if the email client composer or online email composer is se

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread g
On 08/09/2010 01:49 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > But it seems this is not what I received. You can look back in this thread > where I quoted the full OP message, as KMail showed it to me. There was no > mention of html context, nor any tags for line breaks. that is because kmail is not _showi

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday, August 09, 2010 03:02:43 Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 02:49 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > But it seems this is not what I received. You can look back in this > > thread where I quoted the full OP message, as KMail showed it to me. > > There was no mention of html context, nor a

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday, August 09, 2010 00:29:23 Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 15:30 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > But this is just a declaration. The message doesn't actually contain > > any html code, AFAICS. Things like , , and other tags. > > A HTML message section doesn't actually have to have an

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 02:49 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > But it seems this is not what I received. You can look back in this > thread where I quoted the full OP message, as KMail showed it to me. > There was no mention of html context, nor any tags for line breaks. I received the original messa

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday, August 08, 2010 20:53:24 g wrote: > On 08/08/2010 02:30 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > But this is just a declaration. The message doesn't actually contain any > > html code, AFAICS. Things like , , and other tags. > > there is a difference between 'html code' and 'html format'. > > we

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread JD
On 08/08/2010 06:49 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday, August 08, 2010 16:45:55 Mike Klinke wrote: >> On Sunday 08 August 2010 09:30, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> IOW, shouldn't the mail filter (generic one, I'm not talking >>> specifically about g's mail filter) check the actual contents of >

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday, August 08, 2010 16:45:55 Mike Klinke wrote: > On Sunday 08 August 2010 09:30, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > IOW, shouldn't the mail filter (generic one, I'm not talking > > specifically about g's mail filter) check the actual contents of > > the message for html stuff, rather than just blin

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Perhaps you'd like to propose this reasoned and conciliatory position to > the list administrators and propose that the Guidelines be changed. Conciliatory? No. Well reasoned? Yes. You just posted 5267 characters (5.14 k) to a few

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 17:37 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > That is true, but HTML mail is a bandwidth waster. I routinely get > > messages with so much garbage in them that just delete them. This > is > > what this filter does, dumps HTML mail before it even gets read. We > > need to remem

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 15:30 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > But this is just a declaration. The message doesn't actually contain > any html code, AFAICS. Things like , , and other tags. A HTML message section doesn't actually have to have any HTML tags, just needs to be treated as if it might. i.

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 17:37 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > people waste more "bandwidth" than HTML email could ever dream of > by rehashing this crap every other day Though, if every mail came through as HTML, and *many* would if nobody complained, the HTML would become the great bandwidth was

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:41 PM, James McKenzie wrote: >> > That is true, but HTML mail is a bandwidth waster.  I routinely get > messages with so much garbage in them that just delete them.  This is > what this filter does, dumps HTML mail before it even gets read.  We > need to remember that the

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread g
On 08/08/2010 07:53 PM, g wrote: > On 08/08/2010 03:56 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: > > >> one of the arguments against HTML is that it is a waste of other >> people's bandwidth. > > true. > >> Much like this discussion thread. > > not really. especially if op gains a better understanding and stops >

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread g
On 08/08/2010 04:29 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Or am I misunderstanding something? or something. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread g
On 08/08/2010 03:56 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote: > one of the arguments against HTML is that it is a waste of other > people's bandwidth. true. > Much like this discussion thread. not really. especially if op gains a better understanding and stops sending 'html'. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . ***

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread g
On 08/08/2010 03:35 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > It IMPLIES that there are mulitple parts, one of which can be text/html. > The filter is picking up the message as HTML, *not* the filter is blocking message because of 'Content-Type: t e x t/h t m l'. there is a difference. :) -- peace out.

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread g
On 08/08/2010 03:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > To do that it would need to parse the contents (it's easy to construct a > message that looks a lot like HTML but isn't, e.g. a plain text message > discussing HTML syntax). and why i have filter for 'Content-Type: t e x t/h t m l' > Way too

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread g
On 08/08/2010 02:30 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > But this is just a declaration. The message doesn't actually contain any > html code, AFAICS. Things like , , and other tags. there is a difference between 'html code' and 'html format'. web pages work with 'html format', email works with 'html c

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread James McKenzie
suvayu ali wrote: > On 8 August 2010 07:30, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> IOW, shouldn't the mail filter (generic one, I'm not talking specifically >> about >> g's mail filter) check the actual contents of the message for html stuff, >> rather >> than just blindly trust the message header? >> >

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread suvayu ali
On 8 August 2010 07:30, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > IOW, shouldn't the mail filter (generic one, I'm not talking specifically > about > g's mail filter) check the actual contents of the message for html stuff, > rather > than just blindly trust the message header? > I don't understand all this fus

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Takehiko Abe
> As someone who actually doesn't care much if the mail is HTML or Text, > can I just point out that one of the arguments against HTML is that it > is a waste of other people's bandwidth. > > Much like this discussion thread. Yes. Actually I agree with you. And you too have just contributed to it

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Sam Sharpe
As someone who actually doesn't care much if the mail is HTML or Text, can I just point out that one of the arguments against HTML is that it is a waste of other people's bandwidth. Much like this discussion thread. -- Sam -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Takehiko Abe
>>> why does a "multipart/mixed" declaration in the header make >>> it html? >> >> It does not. >> > It IMPLIES that there are mulitple parts, Huh? IMPLIES!? Of course multipart IMPLIES multiple-parts. Isn't that fucking OBVIOUS? > one of which can be text/html. Or something else. > The filte

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Mike Klinke
On Sunday 08 August 2010 09:30, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > IOW, shouldn't the mail filter (generic one, I'm not talking > specifically about g's mail filter) check the actual contents of > the message for html stuff, rather than just blindly trust the > message header? His original message arrive

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread James McKenzie
Takehiko Abe wrote: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===1539751590095400808==" >>> This is HTML mail. If it were text, this would be text/plain... >>> > > bah. HTML is text too. It's called "text/html", which is not > "multipart/mixed"

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread James McKenzie
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday, August 08, 2010 14:49:27 James McKenzie wrote: > >> Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> >>> Here is the message with full headers, as KMail sees it (forgive me for >>> not >>> >>> trimming anything): >>> Subject: Hi >>> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1rp=E1d_Attila_Bakos

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Takehiko Abe
>>> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; >>> >>> boundary="===1539751590095400808==" >> >> This is HTML mail. If it were text, this would be text/plain... bah. HTML is text too. It's called "text/html", which is not "multipart/mixed". They are not related. > why does a "multipart/mi

Re: HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 15:30 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > IOW, shouldn't the mail filter (generic one, I'm not talking > specifically about > g's mail filter) check the actual contents of the message for html > stuff, rather > than just blindly trust the message header? To do that it would nee

HTML mail [was Re: FEL was Re: Hi]

2010-08-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday, August 08, 2010 14:49:27 James McKenzie wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Here is the message with full headers, as KMail sees it (forgive me for > > not > > > > trimming anything): > > Subject: Hi > > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1rp=E1d_Attila_Bakos?= > > He is using the GMail send ag

Re: FEL was Re: Hi

2010-08-08 Thread James McKenzie
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Here is the message with full headers, as KMail sees it (forgive me for not > trimming anything): > > Subject: Hi > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1rp=E1d_Attila_Bakos?= > He is using the GMail send agent, probably the Web Mail interface. It creates HTML mail by default.

Re: FEL was Re: Hi

2010-08-07 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday, August 07, 2010 16:47:32 g wrote: > On 08/07/2010 03:12 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > He didn't send it in html, I received the first post with no problem. > > actually, he sent *two* 'text/html'. one to this list, one to FEL list. > > > Maybe it got caught by your spam filter or so

Re: FEL was Re: Hi

2010-08-07 Thread g
On 08/07/2010 03:12 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > He didn't send it in html, I received the first post with no problem. actually, he sent *two* 'text/html'. one to this list, one to FEL list. > Maybe it got caught by your spam filter or something. my spam filter *did not* catch them. it knows b

Re: FEL was Re: Hi

2010-08-07 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Saturday, August 07, 2010 13:07:51 g wrote: > did not see your original post. maybe it was html and not plain text. [snip] > btw, in future, please do not send emails in html. thank you. He didn't send it in html, I received the first post with no problem. Maybe it got caught by your spam fil

Re: FEL was Re: Hi

2010-08-07 Thread g
On 08/07/2010 08:42 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: > On 07/08/10 08:10, Arpad Attila Bakos wrote: >> Hi! >> I'm Arpad Attila Bakos, 25 years old guy interested in open-source >> software and hardware,from Hungary. >> Working as a repair technician at a world leader mobile phone company >> I've met a Fedor

FEL was Re: Hi

2010-08-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On 07/08/10 08:10, Árpád Attila Bakos wrote: > Hi! > I'm Arpad Attila Bakos, 25 years old guy interested in open-source > software and hardware,from Hungary. > Working as a repair technician at a world leader mobile phone company > I've met a Fedora ambassador, who adviced me to join FEL. > Hi Árp