On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 08:36 PM, Allan Atherton wrote: > Now that I'm on Digest, about half the messages look like the above. > Appears > to be html tags in the message that I did not see before. Do I need > to do > something, or do the senders need to turn that feature of their email > program off?
The digest is sent as text e-mail, not html mail. The digesting software is supposed to take only the plain text alternative for html mail sent to the list, so the html coding doesn't get to the digest. There were two messages sent to the list as html with no plain text alternative, so the software grabbed the html part and appended it to the list. Jerry and I have been bouncing messages back and forth this evening trying to decide what to do about it. There is no obvious solution. Many lists just automatically toss out any html mail that arrives in order to avoid such problems. We're working on it. But, in order to be friendly to the people reading the digest, I suggest posting with standard text mail and not html mail, unless you know for sure that your mailer generates a plain text alternative attachment. For those using Mail.app in Mac OS X, the formatting toggle is under the Format menu. You can also set your default to plain text under Mail->Preferences->Composing I have mine set to default new messages to plain text, but my replies to a rich text message are automatically rich text. This way, I don't send a rich text message to someone who can't read it, but I always have the option of turning on rich text under the Format menu. (Apple calls html mail rich text mail.) The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
