I've looked through Gmail's help to try and see how I could universally set up messages to a particular address to always be plain text, but cannot find anything. Can someone who knows how e-mail me off list?
The hassle is that my default is Rich Text (which I want it to be), and all e-mails I send are Rich Text, except the ones to this board. If I forget (which is easy to do) to click the "Plain Text" button in a reply, voila! HTML mail to the board. If I can automate this, that would solve the issue -- but again, I cannot seem to figure out how. Thanks, Scott On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Paul Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I can’t stay silent any longer. This HTML thing causes untold controversy > on this group, far more than it should. Let’s move into the 21st century and > allow HTML. Sherry, the fact that your message came through in HTML (you said > blame GMAIL) illustrates how hard it is for some people to configure e-mail. > I have Outlook 2007, and I have configured it to send to this group in plain > text. However, it and many other e-mail programs send replies in the same > format as the original post, regardless of settings. > > Let’s take the reasons given for no HTML one by one. > > HTML format messages require more server space for archiving than plain text > messages. > > The server actually seems to store the messages in plain text anyway, it > certainly looks like it when viewing the archives. Anyway, as long as the > message doesn’t contain pictures > and other fancy stuff (ban just the fancy stuff), is a post of 100-200 > words really that much bigger in HTML? > > HTML messages can hide viruses. > > That what anti-virus programs are for. Everybody reading this newsgroup > probably is surfing webpages and those are in HTML. If you will surf to a > MTML webpage, > why is an HTML e-mail message any different? > > HTML messages will increase a message's Spam rating by Spam blocking software. > > Maybe, but virtually all of my incoming e-mail is HTML and I don’t have > any problems > > It takes longer for persons with dial-up connections to download HTML > messages. > > True, but how many people does this affect? And, I go back to how much > bigger is a text only HTML message? I realize HTML messages contain ‘two > versions’ of > the message, but these messages (even with an HTML and plain test > component) are not huge. > > > Some older e-mail readers display HTML messages by including hypertext code, > which makes them hard to read. > > Again, how many people does this affect? > > Some people with visual impairment may have difficulty reading messages with > colored text or tinted backgrounds. > > OK, just ban the fancy stuff. > > > Paul Gray > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Sherry/Support [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: October-26-10 9:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] REMINDER! > > We have been receiving complaints about HTML emails being sent to the LUG > list. Please make sure that your emails are sent in plain text. > > At the bottom of every email sent to the group is a link to the Legacy Usesr > Group Guidelines. Please click on that link and review the guidelines again. > > If you're not sure how to set your email program or webmail to plain text, > there's a link in the guidelines to a website that has that information. > > Also, We ask that there be no attachments - make sure your AV program isn't > sending out a certification attachment and please don't send read receipts to > the group. > > Thanks for your cooperation! > > > Sincerely, > Sherry > Technical Support > Legacy Family Tree > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > ________________________________________ > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1152 / Virus Database: 424/3220 - Release Date: 10/26/10 > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
