On 12/21/2011 08:29 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 07:57:33AM -0500, Dave Angel wrote:
On 12/21/2011 06:49 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
Can I just ask why the majority of the mail on this list is in
multipart/alternative and/or html format. It's driving me nuts trying to read
this on my console. Is there not a requirement to use plain text as with most
other technical mailing lists?
I don't mean to moan and I know it's not a major issue but still.
jamie.
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It's a common problem, in that most html formatting messes up the
indenting of an inline program segment. But other than telling each
newcomer that has the latter problem, there's no enforcement, as far
as I know.
if you're using Thunderbird, you can just tell it to
View->MessageBodyAs->Plain text. I do that for all my email, and it
prevents much spam, makes Phishing more obvious, and probably avoids
some viruses.
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DaveA
I only use text MUA's. When using mutt is not such a problem but I spend a lot
of time on a console using mail(1) and then it is a problem. i'm trying to put
together a perl script to filter it all but it's just a little frustrating.
I have not seen any messages that would not display for me as plain
text. In this mode, thunderbird ignores the other version(s) of the
message. For some regular mail, I sometimes end up with a blank
message, or one that says "to see the entire email, click on this
link." Those I generally just delete, unless I know the company, and am
actually interested.
What I don't do is to try to extract just the text from the html stuff.
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DaveA
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