On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:12:54AM +0800, Michael Lai wrote: > Not trying to be an a** or anything but how am I suppose to show the > distorted format of my "html" message if I don't send it in html?
Easily. An html message is a text file, You can open the html in a text editor and then paste the relevant part into a text message. You seem not to have understood the point so I'll make it easier: if you send your message to this list in html format, how can we tell the difference between the html formatting your mail client is applying now and the html formatting that SquirrelMail applied in the original message? How do you know that your mail client hasn't further formatted (and so obscured) the original message? If you had simply pasted the html from the original message into a text message, we'd have an unambigious record to look at. > Does > that not defeat the purpose of the posting if I send it in plain text? No. > I'd really urge you to get an email client that can show html message. I can view html messages any time I want but I choose not to view them by default. Many people do this for reasons of security or personal preference. Your original e-mail didn't even have a plain text component - any e-mail client that is going to generate html or rich text e-mail should also generate a plain text version (out of courtesy to those who can't or don't read html mail and because failing to do so will often mean your mail is treated as spam). Sending html-only e-mail to technical mailing lists is especially likely to draw a negative reaction. -- Bruce
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