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Re: [SLE] Empty Trash
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:39:27 +0100
- Message-id: <200411070039.27876.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday, 7 November 2004 00.33, Ti Kan wrote:
> steve-ss writes:
> > > Please -do not- send HTML email to the list. It is not
> > > tolerated well on this list.
> >
> > Why not?
>
> Many of us prefer to use simple text-based mail clients. Having
> a bunch of HTML tags embedded in the email is a major annoyance and
> makes the mail virtually unreadable. There is really no good reason
> why HTML should be used.
>
> Plain ASCII text is compatible with all mail clients and that should
> be what's used for mailing lists.
The mail was multipart and had one plain text section and one HTML. Perhaps
your mailer doesn't support MIME standards?! I never saw the HTML, as kmail
nicely showed me the plain text section of the mail
> steve-ss writes:
> > > Please -do not- send HTML email to the list. It is not
> > > tolerated well on this list.
> >
> > Why not?
>
> Many of us prefer to use simple text-based mail clients. Having
> a bunch of HTML tags embedded in the email is a major annoyance and
> makes the mail virtually unreadable. There is really no good reason
> why HTML should be used.
>
> Plain ASCII text is compatible with all mail clients and that should
> be what's used for mailing lists.
The mail was multipart and had one plain text section and one HTML. Perhaps
your mailer doesn't support MIME standards?! I never saw the HTML, as kmail
nicely showed me the plain text section of the mail
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