This is the main reason I use sylpheed-claws.
By default it strips everything down to plain text, and there is a plugin for
html viewing with dillo.
Dovber Shapiro
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:35:18 -0800
DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> > I use Mozilla for all my email. My mom sends a lot of jokes. Some use
> > a normal sized font. Some use a large font. But unfortunately most use
> > a font so tiny that I have to increase the size to read it. Then when I
> > move on to the next email that does *not* have such a tiny font, the
> > text is way too large. So there I am, having to bump the size up and
> > down, up and down, up and down. The emails from my mom are just about
> > the only ones with this problem. Most of these are because she is just
> > forwarding the jokes or whatever.
>
> I told everyone in my family to STOP sending me crap. They now send me
> only a few jokes they think are actually funny and fit my tastes. I
> don't want chain letters, virus warnings, factoids, political editorials
> (unless they comment on them also - don't just quote someone, tell me
> what *you* think), or questionable "news" stories ("Man Gives Birth to
> Goat"). Yes this applies even to my mom.
>
>
> > She knows how to set the font for
> > what she types, but so far I have not been able to get her to understand
> > how to fix the font of what she forwards.
>
> This all implies that you are having problems with HTML email. Evil
> stuff. I also told family that I won't read HTML junk email (see
> categories above). I'll send them a nasty-gram if they send one. Yes
> this applies even to my mom.
>
> I still get both junk email and HTML email from my family. But it's now
> down to a level that is far from annoying and I let it pass. It took me
> at least a year to train everyone, but it was worth it.
>
>
> [snip of self-torture]
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> Attack the problem at its source: the sender. Ask the sender to include
> only a URL, or send crap they think is important as an attachment (and
> not an inline attachment - that's not really an attachment). If they
> must be the 37th person to forward something, ask them to send that as
> an attachment.
>
> If people are going to torture me, I just find an equivalent way to
> torture them back [1].
>
>
> [1] Like sending a controversial, or sarcastic, or nasty reply to
> everyone on a huge CC: list: "Why do you gullible dumbasses always fall
> for this BS?". Then when someone, whom I don't know wonders out loud WTF
> I am and how I got their email address, I sic them on whoever sent their
> address to me: "You can thank your good friend Joe for sending your
> email address to everyone on the planet. By the way, I'm forwarding this
> opinion and your endorsement of it to your local Unibomber".
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> ~DJA.
>
>
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