On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Michael S. Dunsavage
You go onto microsoft lists, and probably apple lists -- and HTML is far more common. It's only in the 'ugly duckling' linux, the lists are generally pushed as text-only, and even down to a 'one-format-fits all' approach. A decided difference, wouldn't you say?
-linda
Except that frequently people on this list use pine or mutt. They don't parse html very well.
Can't they handle the text portion of a multipart mime encoded email? If not, maybe it is time they learned. ie. Several mailers will send html mail in 2 parts. The first part is a plain text version. The second part is the html version. Which I use for simple things like bolding, highlighting, etc. The biggest functional use is tables. If you want a nice looking table, rich text is almost mandatory. The current restriction is a pain. Every now and then I turn on rich formatting in my email client and forget to turn it off. The next time I post here, the email is rejected even though I only type plain text stuff. I don't recall even the lkml lists rejecting multi-part mime encoded emails that have a plain text section. I agree with Linda it is time to reconsider some of this. Greg (Also a uunet user at some point in the ancient past. 1986?) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org