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

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