Hello Richard, Saturday, February 8, 2003, 2:46 AM, you continued this thread on html, TB! & my suggestion:
>> That is not true. Here's how I do it (it's very simple): >> 1).- The Mail Dispatcher will pull down as many lines as you set it >> for (I download 25). >> 2).- Selective Download will look for the strings you set for it in >> any of those downloaded lines. >> Therefore - if you include <html> in your list of strings to be >> excluded, all html mail directed your way will wind up with the >> Receive box unchecked. RW> Does that really do what I was asking? I thought it did. RW> I want the message downloaded but to have the HTML attachment RW> removed _after_ downloading. Oh. RW> If I read your message correctly _all_ messages with HTML RW> attachments will not be downloaded. Not exactly. What happens is: All messages containing the string <html> in the first 25 lines will be de-selected for downloading by the Mail Dispatcher. That is, if you want, you can let them be eliminated automatically w/o downloading them. Alternatively, you can override the automatic "Set for delete w/o downloading" (your default) and check the "Receive" box manually, for mail you want to receive (where the importance you place on the author or the author's message is greater than your hate of (or aversion or disdain for) html mail). Incidentally, most of the spam that shows up on my Mail Dispatcher is html, and most of the html I find there is spam. This makes it hard for me to accept html as a valid option (aside from the bloat and degrading of original TB! cultural pardigm. TB! might as well add a website creator and throw the desires of the purists (mostly long term TB! users) out the window. Perhaps a coffee maker could be added also. IAC, al fin y al cabo this a moot question: the html editor is real and it's there, like it or not (although I haven't downloaded the beta myself - I'm taking the word of others). Douglas -- RW> No RW> good I'm afraid as far too many people send important text RW> messages with HTML. RW> Whilst looking very useful I would rather have all messages in my RW> inbox. For instance I use the excellent Spampal for spam and I wish RW> someone could design a similar HTMLpal for a similar purpose:-) RW> Just in case of the very rare (but increasingly possible) chance that RW> an important message should not have a separate HTML attachment I RW> wouldn't want to miss it. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
