Dear Skip, At 7:27 AM -0600 7/2/02 [dmy], Skip Montanaro wrote about [Subject] Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML formatting in digests: > marina> Will the formatting of email messages in digests be fixed in > marina> 2.1? > >Sounds like your users have selected so-called "plain text" digests. If >it's possible for them to use MIME digests, the problem should go away. >Some folks (like those using AOL I think) can't, however. > >--
Thank you for your suggestion. I'm not an AOL user, I use Eudora (and have been using it for over 7 years), and I have changed my digest options to MIME, as suggested - but still, I keep getting plain text digests with all the garbage that currently comes with them. I believe I do have some computer expertise, and some members on the list have computer science degrees (although they are outnumbered by newbies), but still haven't been able to get digests in a readable form. How can I expect to be able to explain what to do, to those who don't even know what plain text means?? Nearly all the members of our mailing list do not use AOL. The problem is not what email program Internet users use. The problem is the format of the digests coming from Mailman. From what I can gather, because this is not new, this is considered to be a low priority problem in the development of the software. However, most Internet users coming into contact with Mailman for the first time, who happen to select the digest option, experience Mailman for being messy and hard to read. This is not good for promoting the use of Mailman, despite all the wonderful things that it does internally - which unfortunately they aren't able to appreciate. We have many people often complaining to us, and wanting to know why we don't move to Yahoogroups, which "is much easier to use and read", they say. This is the marketing pression we get bombarded with, and we would like to know what we can tell them about what's happening in the future about this problem, because we really believe that Mailman is fundamentally a wonderful product, and we want to see it survive and thrive. Many thanks for your help, marina <http://www.soapnaturally.org> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
