On 10 Jan 2010, at 18:09, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
> wrote:
Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this
post in plain text format?
Stroller.
Below is my last post copied and pasted into gmail without the html
hot links. I am doing this from within systemrescuecd using firefox
and gmail. Don't know how to make it plain ascii otherwise.
Hopefully just eliminating the html links will work. Stroller, is
this what you are referring to?
Both messages contain html text formatting. If you look at your last
message (the one to which I'm replying now, Message-ID: <128ccc221001101009v75f23dcey7d52967b16f7d...@mail.gmail.com
>) in a text editor, for instance:
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The problem I have with this is that it seems difficult in my mail
client to snip excessive quoting when I reply. If I switch to plain
text, all the quoting marks / indenting disappears because (as per the
snippet above) it's using an arbitrary html construction ("border-
left: 1px solid; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> to
represent that.
Just use plain text. It's the convention. It's simple, it works. If
Gmail imposes this html upon you then I suggest you use IMAP to access
your gmail account. You're using Gentoo, so there are plenty of
clients which enable you to do this: mutt, pine, Thunderbird,
Kmail, ... any of them can post in plain text.
I'm sorry to sound like a knob - I do admit to having a bee in my
bonnet about this at the moment. I have a client who sends me 100kb
emails with tiny unreadable text, a yellow background and multiple
images (at least 7), just to convey a sentence or two of actual
content. They pad maybe 150 bytes of text with 100,000 bytes of crap
(the entire text of "Pride & Prejudice" is 700kb), and its effect is
to make the content less readable; I can't bitch to them about their
idiocy, because they pay me thousands a year.
I know this isn't your fault, but I had been quite busy for some hours
and was perhaps tired when I clicked reply to your message last night.
I clicked on the text so as to quote inline and a whole paragraph lit
up as my mailer tried to deal with it; so I clicked on y mailer's
plain text button and all the quote marks disappeared and I couldn't
see who had said what. I just couldn't be arsed to deal with it. Just
use plain text. It's the convention. It's simple, it works.
Stroller.
