On 1 Nov 2004, Bill McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I subscribe to a freedivelist with about 550 divers and the server is set > up to accept plain text only, and there are a significant number of > subscribers who can lurk but never post because they can't figure out how > to send plain text. What I don't understand is that some of them send me > posts and ask me to forward to the list, and I get them as plain text, > but they say that they have received an automated message that they had > attempted to post to the list in "rich text." Why do I receive their > posts as plain text, but those same people can't get past the list > server?
As I mentioned, most email clients will send both plain text and HTML versions. The receiving email client is supposed to be smart enough to display the appropriate version. Emailer is one such smart email client. Apple's Mail.app takes that a step further and will allow you to display whichever version you want to see. But you can configure a mailing list manager to reject the message even if there's a plain text portion. Personally I think that's a bad idea. L-Soft's LISTSERV can actually be configured to just strip the HTML portion and leave the plain text portion intact. That seems ideal to me. -- Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Finger/Web for PGP & S/MIME [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lull.org/adam/ ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
