Am 25.04.2016 um 12:00 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > Greetings All, > > In a recent post David Wright asks of a user: > > > Please configure your client to post a text equivalent of your HTML > code. > > He also asked me to do that. > > Daivd is using a text based email client. I was unaware until he > mentioned it that people using such clients cannot always get a proper > view of HTML posts, as they sometimes lack plain text parts, or with > Outlook in my case, it does not put internet style quotes in the plain > text part where the HTML email has vertical bars. This makes it hard > for text email client users to see what has been quoted and is not ideal. > > The list is plain text only. So if you use a mailer like Outlook and > your default is to send HTML format mail, you need to configure > Outlook to reply to email in the format in which it was sent, that is, > here, plain text. Then list users will get properly formatted plain > text replies with internet style ‘>’ quoting. I am pretty sure Outlook > used to do this by default, but now it does not, and needs to be set > up to do so.
Is it possible to configure Outlook to send messages in specific formats to specific addresses? In Thunder bird you can save the "preferred message format" together with contacts. > > I am certain that most Outlook users are oblivious to this. David is > going to be sending such requests continually. > > Therefore, I wonder is there is anywhere we can put guidelines for > posting to the list? > > Similarly, it would be good to educate people not to reply to the > digest as a subject line, but to the thread in question. This is > another thing that comes up frequently. Another point to add to list > guidelines. > > Can this advice go somewhere here perhaps? > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > Well, if it can go there, I'm sure those who need it won't read it ... Urs > Andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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