html mail

2003-06-12 Thread Sebastiaan Mangoentinojo
:( My apologies for sending html mail. I wasn't paying attention using someone else's computer. Sebastiaan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: html mail

2003-06-12 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Sebastiaan Mangoentinojo wrote: :( My apologies for sending html mail. I wasn't paying attention using someone else's computer. Perfectly alright. /dev/null is nowhere near full :/ -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

Re: html mail

2003-06-12 Thread Robert Jones
On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:01:52 -0400 From: Hal Burgiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: html mail Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Sebastiaan Mangoentinojo

Re: html mail

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:01:52 -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Sebastiaan Mangoentinojo wrote: :( My apologies for sending html mail. I wasn't paying attention using someone else's computer. Perfectly

Re: html mail

2003-06-12 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Robert Jones wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:01:52 -0400 From: Hal Burgiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: html mail Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Sebastiaan

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:48:11PM +0200, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: [...] -- O Ernest E. Vogelsinger/~\ The ASCII (\)ICQ #13394035\ / Ribbon Campaign ^ X Against

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 09:07 25.10.2002, Thomas Ribbrock said: [snip] On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:48:11PM +0200, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: [...] -- So now you only have to fix your signature delimiter: It's -- (note the space!) on a line of its own, not just --... ;-)

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Vidiot
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:48:11PM +0200, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: [...] -- O Ernest E. Vogelsinger/~\ The ASCII (\)ICQ #13394035\ / Ribbon Campaign ^ X Against

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Vidiot
At 09:07 25.10.2002, Thomas Ribbrock said: [snip] On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:48:11PM +0200, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: [...] -- So now you only have to fix your signature delimiter: It's -- (note the space!) on a line of its own, not just --... ;-)

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:11:46AM +0200, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: At 09:07 25.10.2002, Thomas Ribbrock said: So now you only have to fix your signature delimiter: It's -- (note the space!) on a line of its own, not just --... ;-) [snip] right

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:10:40AM -0500, Vidiot wrote: I take it back, there is a space at the end. I never do it manually, elm always adds it. I've never noticed before. Good to know that there *are* mail programs that make wise decisions... ;-) Cheerio, Thomas --

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Oct-2002/03:04 -0500, Vidiot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never had a problem with --. Every program that I know that's looked at it hasn't complained about a space. Doesn't make any sense for it to be there. At the time when it was first

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Francisco Neira
Anthony E. Greene wrote: On 25-Oct-2002/03:04 -0500, Vidiot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never had a problem with --. Every program that I know that's looked at it hasn't complained about a space. Doesn't make any sense for it to be there. At the time when it was first used, there

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:32, Francisco Neira wrote: Anthony E. Greene wrote: On 25-Oct-2002/03:04 -0500, Vidiot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never had a problem with --. Every program that I know that's looked at it hasn't complained about a space. Doesn't make any sense for it to be

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Saul Arias
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:06, Anthony E. Greene wrote: At the time when it was first used, there probably was a reason for the trailing space. At this point it's one of those informal Internet standards, just like the reply quote . It's somewhat documented. From RFC 2646: 4.3. Usenet

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Oct-2002/11:52 -0500, Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:32, Francisco Neira wrote: Hmm, interesting. I had no idea what those hyphens were intended for... be neither since evolution does not do anything about

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:25:46PM -0500, mark wrote: [...] Just so y'all have a clue what I'm talking about, I took a post from the current digest (and I am *not* picking on you, Dave Wheeler, it's just that your post was what was in front of me when I got irritated), and I've mangled the

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Daniel Goldin
On (10/24/02 11:58), Vidiot wrote: If you use a good old Linux mailer like mutt and w3m to process html mail and procmail to sort mailing lists instead of using a digest--it all comes out looking like vanilla text. Since I switched to mutt, I no longer seethe with irritation over html mail

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Daniel Goldin
On (10/24/02 13:53), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:27:31AM -0700, Daniel Goldin wrote: David Wheeler is a self-professed Linux newbie, attempting to install Redhat for the first time. Singling him out--however gently--seems to me a bigger breach of etiquette than

RE: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Dave Wheeler
how to use it now! Regards Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list-admin;redhat.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Goldin Sent: 24 October 2002 17:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: html mail David Wheeler is a self-professed Linux newbie, attempting to install

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Francisco Neira
What about using this ribbon? :-D -- Francisco Neira B. /~\ The ASCII Administrador de Red\ / Ribbon Campaign Defensoria del PuebloX Against Lima, Peru, -05:00 UTC / \

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On (10/23/02 16:25), mark wrote: Folks, I'll bring it up again. *Please* consider that, esp. in the Unix/Linux world there are a *whole* lot less people who want html mail. We don't *care* what nifty font you're writing in, we

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 19:25 24.10.2002, Francisco Neira said: [snip] What about using this ribbon? :-D [snip] ...adopted... -- O Ernest E. Vogelsinger/~\ The ASCII (\)ICQ #13394035

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Vidiot
that the message needed to go out, as it does every now and then because new users are joining the fold all the time. Not using anyone's name probably would have been better. If you use a good old Linux mailer like mutt and w3m to process html mail and procmail to sort mailing lists instead of using

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Daniel Goldin
a good old Linux mailer like mutt and w3m to process html mail and procmail to sort mailing lists instead of using a digest--it all comes out looking like vanilla text. Since I switched to mutt, I no longer seethe with irritation over html mail. Far easier to deal with it on your end (you can) than

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread jkinz
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:27:31AM -0700, Daniel Goldin wrote: David Wheeler is a self-professed Linux newbie, attempting to install Redhat for the first time. Singling him out--however gently--seems to me a bigger breach of etiquette than sending email in html form. Not the kind of welcome

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Vidiot
You need to put some stuff in your mailcap file and in your .muttrc. If you're interested I could send you my settings. Replying works as though you're replying to text, if you set things up right. Yes please. Thanks. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's job to forgive bin Laden.

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Oct-2002/11:58 -0500, Vidiot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that the message needed to go out, as it does every now and then because new users are joining the fold all the time. Not using anyone's name probably would have been better. I

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Oct-2002/12:11 -0700, Daniel Goldin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (10/24/02 11:58), Vidiot wrote: How does mutt handle html only e-mail. How does mutt handle replying to combo plaintext/html e-mail? You need to put some stuff in your mailcap

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Vidiot
I used to do that, but the few HTML-only messages that I want to read are not completely rendered by character mode browsers. Instead, I configured my GUI browser as the text/html viewer. Tony During the week day, I read my mail from work, via a telnet connection. No X available. MB -- e-mail:

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Oct-2002/16:56 -0500, Vidiot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to do that, but the few HTML-only messages that I want to read are not completely rendered by character mode browsers. Instead, I configured my GUI browser as the text/html viewer.

Re: html mail

2002-10-23 Thread mark
Folks, I'll bring it up again. *Please* consider that, esp. in the Unix/Linux world there are a *whole* lot less people who want html mail. We don't *care* what nifty font you're writing in, we don't *care* about your wowser-stationary/wallpaper. On top of that, this is a mailing list

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-07 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi Tim, Tim Kehres wrote: These rules (netiquette pertaining to HTML postings) have been around since almost before time began (at least in reference to modern email usage). At the time they made a lot sense. In terms of current usage, not as much, IMHO. When sending content that can be

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Tim Kehres
These rules (netiquette pertaining to HTML postings) have been around since almost before time began (at least in reference to modern email usage). At the time they made a lot sense. In terms of current usage, not as much, IMHO. When sending content that can be sent either way, it's always a

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Tim Kehres wrote: These rules (netiquette pertaining to HTML postings) have been around since almost before time began (at least in reference to modern email usage). At the time they made a lot sense. In terms of current usage, not as much, IMHO. When sending content that can be sent

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Tim Kehres wrote: The majority of email clients today however are HTML aware, and the percentage of people using such HTML-aware clients is only increasing. 9x% of the world uses Microsoft software. This does not make it a good thing. rday -- redhat-list mailing

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread jkinz
it plain text. The majority of email clients today however are HTML aware, and the Not in the places I have worked, and even if true it has always been true that netiquette says do not send formatted email to Mailing lists since it won't be supported. In this list HTML mail simply gets dumped

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:37:00PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Tim Kehres wrote: The majority of email clients today however are HTML aware, and the percentage of people using such HTML-aware clients is only increasing. 9x% of the world uses Microsoft software.

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Scott
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Hal Burgiss wrote: I wonder what percentage of those had viruses or other bad things happen as a result of this brain dead tendency. Text based mail is a great, free AV tool (for those saddled with MS software). Pine all the way! What I love is the amount of email going

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Keith Winston
is much more effective than any text only group I've been involved with. I disagree. If everyone used HTML mail just for things like screenshots or where an image was essential, then maybe it would be workable. However, most people use HTML mail to create a fancy border or background

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Vidiot
The majority of email clients today however are HTML aware, and the percentage of people using such HTML-aware clients is only increasing. The reasons are simple - it is easier to read (typically), and more information can be conveyed effectively. Other lists that I'm subscribed to have made

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Tim Kehres
I disagree. If everyone used HTML mail just for things like screenshots or where an image was essential, then maybe it would be workable. However, most people use HTML mail to create a fancy border or background, or to hideously misuse fonts, in most cases communicating nothing useful

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Tim Kehres
worked, and even if true it has always been true that netiquette says do not send formatted email to Mailing lists since it won't be supported. In this list HTML mail simply gets dumped without being opened by many folks. It depends on the list. More and more are welcoming the format. It also

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Tim Kehres
The majority of email clients today however are HTML aware, and the percentage of people using such HTML-aware clients is only increasing. The reasons are simple - it is easier to read (typically), and more information can be conveyed effectively. Other lists that I'm subscribed to have

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Andrés
I thought this list was to discuss the redhat distro, not some sort of holy war. Gee, the real slashdot effect is everywhere now I guess. Filtering will do I guess. __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Tim Kehres
I thought this list was to discuss the redhat distro, not some sort of holy war. Gee, the real slashdot effect is everywhere now I guess. You're right - let's take this discussion off list, OK? Best Regards, -- Tim -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Anthony E. Greene
don't know the keyboard, by all means keep reaching for the mouse. But those of us who know our way around the keyboard can be a lot more productive with character-based mailers. Those mailers typically do not support HTML without external help. Most HTML mail is unnecessary anyway. It's simply

Forget HTML mail, how about (No subject)?

2001-03-18 Thread Michael Burger
Ok...I know we've been going round and round about HTML email. That doesn't bother me as much, since the newest Pine implements HTML filtering/viewing capabilities. What bothers me, and will get your message dropped directly into my bitbucket, is a subject of "No subject". If you're going to

Re: Forget HTML mail, how about (No subject)?

2001-03-18 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Michael Burger wrote: If you're going to post a message to a support list, the very least you can do is take 3 seconds to type in a subject line, indicating what the message is about, for heaven's sake. And while I note that most folks on this list are good

No more HTML mail messages

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
I'm no longer in that thread. Feel free to write me privately if you want to discuss it. Sorry for carrying it on so long. In my defense, however, I took a week off while my son was born, so I was catching up on 2000+ messages. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

Re: No more HTML mail messages

1998-06-25 Thread Cristian KAMENICZKI
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: I'm no longer in that thread. Feel free to write me privately if you want to discuss it. Sorry for carrying it on so long. In my defense, however, I took a week off while my son was born, so I was catching up on 2000+ messages. Congrats!!