Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-27 Thread Ray_Net
EE wrote on 27-01-17 22:08: Ray_Net wrote: Felix Miata wrote on 25-01-17 22:49: Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:26 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote: Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:00 (UTC+0100): Why your newspaper is not in plain-text ? What's a newspaper? Use the first link fou

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-27 Thread EE
Ray_Net wrote: Felix Miata wrote on 25-01-17 22:49: Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:26 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote: Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:00 (UTC+0100): Why your newspaper is not in plain-text ? What's a newspaper? Use the first link found -> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ne

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-26 Thread Felix Miata
Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-27 01:07 (UTC+0100): Sometimes I used email to show an existing web page and the expected web page it should be with my modifications - in that case HTML mail is essential ! That's hardly a "most users" use case, or even essential. When I want to do that, I email o

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-26 Thread Ray_Net
Felix Miata wrote on 25-01-17 22:49: Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:26 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote: Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:00 (UTC+0100): Why your newspaper is not in plain-text ? What's a newspaper? Use the first link found -> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Newspaper wikipedi

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Bret Busby
the world.") Your contempt for the use of plain text formatting, simply proves an earlier point of mine. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought,

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Ed Mullen
On 1/25/2017 at 4:00 PM, Ray_Net's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote on 25-01-17 08:52: Well I prefer plain text not because of bandwidth limitation but it has other advantages: Security: No stupid picture links trying to divert you to an attack site. You s

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Felix Miata
Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:26 (UTC+0100): Felix Miata wrote: Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:00 (UTC+0100): Why your newspaper is not in plain-text ? What's a newspaper? Use the first link found -> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Newspaper wikipedia It was a joke. Emails aren't newsp

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Ray_Net
Felix Miata wrote on 25-01-17 22:17: Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:00 (UTC+0100): Why your newspaper is not in plain-text ? What's a newspaper? Use the first link found -> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Newspaper wikipedia ___ support-seamonkey mailing l

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Felix Miata
Ray_Net composed on 2017-01-25 22:00 (UTC+0100): Why your newspaper is not in plain-text ? What's a newspaper? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Feli

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Ray_Net
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote on 25-01-17 08:52: Well I prefer plain text not because of bandwidth limitation but it has other advantages: Security: No stupid picture links trying to divert you to an attack site. You see the links in plain text and can decide if they are legit. No hidden tags etc.

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Ray_Net
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 25-01-17 19:09: Bret Busby wrote: It is really quite a simple matter. If a person sending an email message, intends to show respect for the people expected to read the message, the message will be sent in plain text format. If the person sending an email message, in

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Ed Mullen
On 1/25/2017 at 1:09 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Bret Busby wrote: It is really quite a simple matter. If a person sending an email message, intends to show respect for the people expected to read the message, the message will be sent in plain text fo

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Bret Busby wrote: It is really quite a simple matter. If a person sending an email message, intends to show respect for the people expected to read the message, the message will be sent in plain text format. If the person sending an email message, intends to show contempt for the people expect

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, Bret Busby wrote: Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:42:29 From: Bret Busby To: support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: Plain-text formatting On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Wolf wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:57:04 From: Wolf To: support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org Newsgroups

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Wolf wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:57:04 From: Wolf To: support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org Newsgroups: mozilla.support.seamonkey Subject: Re: Plain-text formatting Frank-Rainer Grahl schrieb: Well I prefer plain text not because of bandwidth limitation but it has

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-25 Thread Wolf
Frank-Rainer Grahl schrieb: Well I prefer plain text not because of bandwidth limitation but it has other advantages: Security: No stupid picture links trying to divert you to an attack site. You see the links in plain text and can decide if they are legit. No hidden tags etc... Readability

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-24 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
Well I prefer plain text not because of bandwidth limitation but it has other advantages: Security: No stupid picture links trying to divert you to an attack site. You see the links in plain text and can decide if they are legit. No hidden tags etc... Readability: Most web fonts just s*ck an

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-24 Thread Felix Miata
Ed Mullen composed on 2017-01-24 21:41 (UTC-0500): However, stats I read recently state that most people here can get high speed. Yes, if you live in rural Iowa, maybe not, but most people do not live there. Most people live in high density areas. I'm in suburban Atlanta and get 100 Mbs via C

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-24 Thread Ed Mullen
On 1/24/2017 at 5:49 PM, Felix Miata's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-01-23 13:29 (UTC-0500): Even in the U.S., reasonably priced broadband is not hard to find. Except in places where it's either impossible to find, or limited to prohibitivel

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-24 Thread Felix Miata
Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-01-23 13:29 (UTC-0500): Even in the U.S., reasonably priced broadband is not hard to find. Except in places where it's either impossible to find, or limited to prohibitively expensive satellite service. Not everyone is in position to choose to move just bec

Re: Fwd: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
Busby >> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:46:45 +0800 >> Subject: Re: Plain-text formatting >> To: Daniel >> >> On 23/01/2017, Daniel wrote: >> >> >>> >>> One day, if I'm lucky, I'll get an ADSL standard connection. But not >>&

Re: Fwd: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-24 Thread Daniel
On 24/01/2017 1:49 AM, Bret Busby wrote: Forwarding what should have been an off-list message, to the list, as the address to which the reply was addressed, is bogus. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Busby Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:46:45 +0800 Subject: Re: Plain-text

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-23 Thread mozilla-lists . mbourne
Ray_Net wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 22-01-17 20:25: mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: It seems to be having anything other than a-z (even an accented character) adjacent to the opening or closing asterisk that prevents the text from being formatted: *Several words with no numbe

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-23 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Daniel wrote: On 23/01/2017 1:55 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: In the modern era of terabyte disks and gigabyte RAM, who the (*&^(*&^ cares about a couple of extra kilobytes? It may be mathematically or logically inelegant, but we're talking about sofa-cushion change, not real money. Pick me!!

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-23 Thread Ed Mullen
On 1/22/2017 at 9:55 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Felix Miata wrote: Ed Mullen composed on 2017-01-22 18:49 (UTC-0500): Virtually no one I communicate with uses plain text and hasn't in decades. And 99.9% of commercial email is HTML. I just don't ge

Re: Fwd: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-23 Thread Ray_Net
Bret Busby wrote on 23-01-17 15:49: Forwarding what should have been an off-list message, to the list, as the address to which the reply was addressed, is bogus. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Busby Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:46:45 +0800 Subject: Re: Plain-text formatting To

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-23 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/01/2017, Bret Busby wrote: > Forwarding what should have been an off-list message, to the list, as > the address to which the reply was addressed, is bogus. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Bret Busby > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:46:45 +0800 > Su

Fwd: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-23 Thread Bret Busby
Forwarding what should have been an off-list message, to the list, as the address to which the reply was addressed, is bogus. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Busby Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:46:45 +0800 Subject: Re: Plain-text formatting To: Daniel On 23/01/2017, Daniel

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-23 Thread Daniel
On 23/01/2017 1:55 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Felix Miata wrote: Ed Mullen composed on 2017-01-22 18:49 (UTC-0500): Virtually no one I communicate with uses plain text and hasn't in decades. And 99.9% of commercial email is HTML. I just don't get the aversion to it. 1-styling that, like

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-23 Thread Ray_Net
Felix Miata wrote on 23-01-17 07:34: Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-01-22 21:55 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: Ed Mullen composed on 2017-01-22 18:49 (UTC-0500): Virtually no one I communicate with uses plain text and hasn't in decades. And 99.9% of commercial email is HTML. I just don

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-22 Thread Felix Miata
Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-01-22 21:55 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: Ed Mullen composed on 2017-01-22 18:49 (UTC-0500): Virtually no one I communicate with uses plain text and hasn't in decades. And 99.9% of commercial email is HTML. I just don't get the aversion to it. 1-styling

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-22 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Felix Miata wrote: Ed Mullen composed on 2017-01-22 18:49 (UTC-0500): Virtually no one I communicate with uses plain text and hasn't in decades. And 99.9% of commercial email is HTML. I just don't get the aversion to it. 1-styling that, like most web sites, disregards user settings, result

Re: Plain-text formatting

2017-01-22 Thread Felix Miata
Ed Mullen composed on 2017-01-22 18:49 (UTC-0500): Virtually no one I communicate with uses plain text and hasn't in decades. And 99.9% of commercial email is HTML. I just don't get the aversion to it. 1-styling that, like most web sites, disregards user settings, resulting in tiny fonts an

Re: Plain-text formatting [Was: Archived Email Messages Faded Out in SM v2.4 and v2.46]

2017-01-22 Thread Ed Mullen
On 1/22/2017 at 5:16 PM, Ray_Net's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 22-01-17 20:25: mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I just wrote: I see that; it seems to be a recent development. The second line is especially sur

Re: Plain-text formatting [Was: Archived Email Messages Faded Out in SM v2.4 and v2.46]

2017-01-22 Thread Ray_Net
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 22-01-17 20:25: mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I just wrote: I see that; it seems to be a recent development. The second

Re: Plain-text formatting [Was: Archived Email Messages Faded Out in SM v2.4 and v2.46]

2017-01-22 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I just wrote: I see that; it seems to be a recent development. The second line is especially surprising. Your individual word *bold* works, but multiple *bold words* apparently no longer do. Or perhaps it's the inclusion

Re: Plain-text formatting [Was: Archived Email Messages Faded Out in SM v2.4 and v2.46]

2017-01-22 Thread mozilla-lists . mbourne
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I just wrote: I see that; it seems to be a recent development. The second line is especially surprising. Your individual word *bold* works, but multiple *bold words* apparently no longer do. Or perhaps it's the inclusion of a sentence terminator that causes this. *On

Re: text formatting

2016-03-29 Thread mozilla-lists . mbourne
text, shows only plain text formatting. Probably the reason the HTML formatting bar doesn't appear. To the composition window it is a plain text message you are editing. Yes, I have understood .. But this is stupid to not permit an HTML modification of this mail, because normally the optio

Re: text formatting

2016-03-28 Thread WaltS48
plain text formatting. Probably the reason the HTML formatting bar doesn't appear. To the composition window it is a plain text message you are editing. Yes, I have understood .. But this is stupid to not permit an HTML modification of this mail, because normally the option say that I compo

Re: text formatting

2016-03-28 Thread mozilla-lists . mbourne
Ray_Net wrote: mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote on 28/03/2016 18:11: Ray_Net wrote: WaltS48 wrote on 27/03/2016 17:25: Looking at the source of a message composed in HTML and only sent as plain text, shows only plain text formatting. Probably the reason the HTML formatting bar

Re: text formatting

2016-03-28 Thread WaltS48
On 03/28/2016 03:37 PM, Ray_Net wrote: mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote on 28/03/2016 18:11: Ray_Net wrote: WaltS48 wrote on 27/03/2016 17:25: Looking at the source of a message composed in HTML and only sent as plain text, shows only plain text formatting. Probably the reason the

Re: text formatting

2016-03-28 Thread Ray_Net
mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote on 28/03/2016 18:11: Ray_Net wrote: WaltS48 wrote on 27/03/2016 17:25: Looking at the source of a message composed in HTML and only sent as plain text, shows only plain text formatting. Probably the reason the HTML formatting bar doesn't appea

Re: text formatting

2016-03-28 Thread mozilla-lists . mbourne
Ray_Net wrote: I have for my account Composition & Addressing, - "Compose messages in HTML format". All goes well ... when composing the html-formatting bar is present ... then I send the mail, and SM propose me to send in "html and plain text" or in "html only" or in "plain text only". When I c

Re: text formatting

2016-03-28 Thread mozilla-lists . mbourne
Ray_Net wrote: WaltS48 wrote on 27/03/2016 17:25: Looking at the source of a message composed in HTML and only sent as plain text, shows only plain text formatting. Probably the reason the HTML formatting bar doesn't appear. To the composition window it is a plain text message you are ed

Re: text formatting

2016-03-27 Thread Ray_Net
r friend ... AFTER sending the first in plaintext. I did not think about the second send at the beginning ... Anyway, I was expecting that SM present me ALWAYS the html-bar because my "Compose messages in HTML format" option is set. Composing a new mail OR editing a mail as new are BOTH a &quo

Re: text formatting

2016-03-27 Thread WaltS48
aintext. I did not think about the second send at the beginning ... Anyway, I was expecting that SM present me ALWAYS the html-bar because my "Compose messages in HTML format" option is set. Composing a new mail OR editing a mail as new are BOTH a "Compose message" Lookin

Re: text formatting

2016-03-27 Thread Ray_Net
WaltS48 wrote on 27/03/2016 16:58: On 03/27/2016 08:55 AM, Daniel wrote: On 27/03/2016 8:35 AM, Ray_Net wrote: WaltS48 wrote on 26/03/2016 22:14: Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I

Re: text formatting

2016-03-27 Thread WaltS48
On 03/27/2016 08:55 AM, Daniel wrote: On 27/03/2016 8:35 AM, Ray_Net wrote: WaltS48 wrote on 26/03/2016 22:14: Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar i

Re: text formatting

2016-03-27 Thread Daniel
On 27/03/2016 8:35 AM, Ray_Net wrote: WaltS48 wrote on 26/03/2016 22:14: Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey (2.40), even after starting

Re: text formatting

2016-03-27 Thread Ray_Net
WaltS48 wrote on 26/03/2016 22:50: On 03/26/2016 05:35 PM, Ray_Net wrote: WaltS48 wrote on 26/03/2016 22:14: Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in

Re: text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread Roger Fink
Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey (2.40), even after starting it in safe mode. The only thing I can

Re: text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Roger Fink wrote: The one place I could find in Preferences to select plain text vs. HTML is Mail & Newsgroups/Send Format/Send the message in formatted text (html) anyway. On the main mail toolbar (Get Msgs | Compose | Reply | Reply All | ...), you can make the decision on the fly for a

Re: text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread WaltS48
On 03/26/2016 05:35 PM, Ray_Net wrote: WaltS48 wrote on 26/03/2016 22:14: Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey (2.40), even after startin

Re: text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread Ray_Net
WaltS48 wrote on 26/03/2016 22:14: Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey (2.40), even after starting it in safe mode. The only thing I can

Re: text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread WaltS48
Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey (2.40), even after starting it in safe mode. The only thing I can think of is that since I use it for

Re: text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread Roger Fink
Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey (2.40), even after starting it in safe mode. The only thing I can think of is that since I use it for newsgroups but not

Re: text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Roger Fink wrote: Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey (2.40), even after starting it in safe mode. The only thing I can think of is that since I use it for newsgroups but not email, it has decided I'm not worth

Re: text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread Roger Fink
Original Message Roger Fink wrote: Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey (2.40), even after starting it in safe mode. The only thing I can think of is that since I use it for newsgroups but not email, it has decided I'm not worth bothering with. I

Re: text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Roger Fink wrote: > Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey > (2.40), even after starting it in safe mode. The only thing I can think > of is that since I use it for newsgroups but not email, it has decided > I'm not worth bothering with. > > I use plain text for newsgro

text formatting

2016-03-26 Thread Roger Fink
Sounds crazy, but I can't find the formatting toolbar in SeaMonkey (2.40), even after starting it in safe mode. The only thing I can think of is that since I use it for newsgroups but not email, it has decided I'm not worth bothering with. I use plain text for newsgroups, but I'm still curious

Re: Seamonkey Account BUG & Post Text formatting - TO: Daniel

2014-08-01 Thread Daniel
On 01/08/14 14:15, Ben wrote: support-seamonkey-requ...@lists.mozilla.org wrote: ( *This sample of quoted text retained to show Ben what I mean by long lines and short lines* ) >Double click on the line with the email account(s) and/or Newsgroup >acconut(s) that have the >text 'valid' after a

Re: Seamonkey Account BUG & Post Text formatting - TO: Daniel

2014-07-31 Thread Ben
support-seamonkey-requ...@lists.mozilla.org wrote: ( *This sample of quoted text retained to show Ben what I mean by long lines and short lines* ) >Double click on the line with the email account(s) and/or Newsgroup >acconut(s) that have the >text 'valid' after a fullstop AND have the word 'fa

Re: Link Text Formatting

2011-01-10 Thread Jens Hatlak
Chris Bluemel wrote: I am in the process of creating a webpage using SeaMonkey. Usually I can change the text colour very easily, but this does not seem to be the case with a Link - I seem to have no control of the text colour for a link. When I select a new colour, it is not applied, it just s

Re: Link Text Formatting

2011-01-10 Thread David E. Ross
On 1/10/11 6:04 AM, Chris Bluemel wrote: > Hi folks > > I am in the process of creating a webpage using SeaMonkey. Usually I can > change the text colour very easily, but this does not seem to be the case > with a Link - I seem to have no control of the text colour for a link. When > I select

Re: Link Text Formatting

2011-01-10 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Chris Bluemel wrote: > I am in the process of creating a webpage using SeaMonkey.  Usually I > can change the text colour very easily, but this does not seem to be > the case with a Link - I seem to have no control of the text colour > for a link.  When I select a new colour, it is not applied, it

Link Text Formatting

2011-01-10 Thread Chris Bluemel
Hi folks I am in the process of creating a webpage using SeaMonkey.  Usually I can change the text colour very easily, but this does not seem to be the case with a Link - I seem to have no control of the text colour for a link.  When I select a new colour, it is not applied, it just stays as it