Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:27:27 -0500 From: Richard Feltenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: error 5
I am using fixmail to strip any html messages before I read my mail. Then I can read all my messages, and the html messages are also readable. I downloaded it from: http://www.mindspring.com/~n8kl/files/fixmail.zip Richard Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:44:22 +0500 >If the message hasn't caused N-T to choak then like always you can >save the html file and use either the htm to txt converter or >their's another one called htm strip or something like that I can't >recall it's full name. These work ok but it would be a second >operation. If Dave put that function right into the reader of N-T >this would be a great function. However, I don't think their has >been any work done on N-T or the reader in specific so that's >likely not going to happen. I don't know where Dave has gone with >Nettamer but I fear it's ending up as abandedware. Anyways, if the >file still causes N-T to choak when reading then theirs no real >easy way to get at that file but to stop reading and doing some of >the things that you have already tried to do like cut and paste. I >really never need to do this because whenever I get this type of >message it's always been spam and I can tell what spam it is by >reading the subject line from the roater function in Nettamer. >Then I just "e" the file and move on! All these problems in my mind >stem from the reader function in Nettamer and I really haven't >found where the viedo card plays a role in that error. As for the >memory I'm not certain but that might have something to do with it >but that's much harder to determine I believe. I guess it's just >that Nettamer is and can be a lot of things but it's not everything >and we just need to remember that. As long as the majority of mail >is text well that's fine but if it goes over to html for the >majority of messages then I believe their's going to be a day of >change needed for sure and N-T just won't be able to keep-up. >However I don't think that day is here by a long shot just because >in the majority of mail lists that I belong to which are not >blindness related and are not computer geeks, the majority of those >common folks all post in text for some reason. So they seem to have >the basic good sense to figure out that not everyone is using html >for mail. Anyways hope you figure it out for yourself. Mark >On 2002-02-25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >-CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >-you are right indeed. after all what makes microsoft sell is the >-effort made to keep users in the dark about how things work. in >-yahoo, when one joins a list you can choose to have the html left >-out. i still wish we had an html filter as a part of nettamer. >-actually I still need one in general, but to have to take a >message, -save it, filter it, only to dump it seems like a lot of >trouble. -i would love to see from nettamer a >-"filter this message to remove html characters? >-from a speech standpoint it sounds frightful! >-karen >-On 2002-02-25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >->Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:38:21 +0500 >->Hello All, >->Yes I have also these double messages all of the time on >->any number of lists. I think that it just boils down to the fact >->that majority of the senders do not know their e--mail program and >->do not know how to change the setting and or that they just don't >->care because they don't understand how the net works and they >->believe that everyone uses just what they use. Many of these >users ->have most likely not been around very many years and they >do not ->know a thing about text or much else than what their gui >program ->will default to when setting it up. When I recieve a >double message ->it always comes first text and then the html. So >I can remove the ->message after reading the text part. Only spam >comes to me in true ->html only without a text part. When I recieve >one of these I can ->generally read the first few lines to get an >idea as to what the ->html is going for and then just remove the >file because it's just ->trash. Once and a while I also recieve the >error (5) message and I ->believe for me its related to the larger >spam messages. I cannot ->read these but when going into the >Nettamer list of files before ->reading I can tell what the listing >is and most frequently it's a ->spam wo I just (e) the file and >have it resort and the offending ->file is removed. I don't think >that it is related to sounds or the ->viedo setting. >->Mark >->On 2002-02-24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >->-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 00:07:14 -0500 >->-On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:17:08 -0700 >->-"Ronald C. Dailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >->-> Your experience mirrors what I have seen in a particular group >->->that I have long been subsribed to and that is now a part of >->->yahoo groups. Some members tend to send e-mail that is partly >->->quoted-printable and then the text is duplicated in html. I >->just ->let it go because everyone else is using some form of >->Windows ->e-mail, and they can read the darned things without >->problems. -> Ronald Dailey >->-Ron: >->-I know they can read the darned things without problems. I just >->-don't understand why they send the darned things. It just >doesn't ->-make sense to me. Why do they think anybody would want >to read ->-the darned things anyway, with or without problems? If >you tell ->-me once in ascii, you don't need to tell me the same >darned thing ->-again in HTML. Why do people feel the need to >repeat themselves? ->-People who go around needlessly repeating >themselves all the time ->-have a problem. If they are saying >something in a different way ->-for the purpose of further >clarifying what they had previously ->-said, or if they are just >re-iterating for the purpose of ->-emphasizing the importance and >the need for attention to something ->-they had said before, then >that is OK. ->-Sam Heywood >->-> On 2002-02-23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >->->> Almost all of the HTML emails that I get are basically >->->>duplicates of the text version. Font sizes are usually quite >->->>small and the font colors are usually black and the background >->->>is white. I see absolutely no point in sending dupe HTMLs of >->->>this type and I consider it quite an annoyance and a waste of >->-bandwidth. When I >->-> <snip> >->->> Sam Heywood >->-******************************************************** >->-To unsubscribe from this list, >->-send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word >->-Unsubscribe >->-as the subject. >->-You MUST use the same address with which you subscribed! >->-******************************************************** >->Mark F. 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