On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 07:24 PM, Donald Keenan wrote: > Jeremy/Charles: > Thanks for the explanation about plain text. Is rich text the use of > bold, non-default fonts, > different sizes, etc? That would make sense: "rich".
yes. > Is this why I have on occasion have a message bounced back as > undeliverable as a MIME attachment? This happened to me today when I > emailed myself a message from my work account. I was researching links > I want to include in a page and copied them into an email and sent it > to > my home RoadRunner account. Urls don't count as rich text, do they? > They > often appear in our list's messages. exactly. some mail servers reject MIME attachments altogether (which is how some, but not all, mail clients do rich text). most mailing lists like LEM reject MIME. also, there are lots and lots of people using mail clients that flat out don't support rich text, especially people who are restricted to text-based UNIX clients on university computers (like me, for some of my accounts). These clients (most popularly one called 'pine') tend to render rich text as gibberish. URLs don't usually count as rich text, unless your client tries to encode them so that it can be clicked on and activated. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:imac-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:imac-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:imac-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
