Hi Dave On Jan 25, 2008 3:45 PM, The Wassermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seems I have offended you Karl - and others . . . ? > > Please forgive me for I obviously do not understand the protocols and > conventions of this learned group. Indeed, I am a new recruit who is > anxious to dispense with MS. I sincerely sought some help and am surprised > at the snide comments from Linux gods > I'm not too sure what happened above. Essentially, it is preferred if you do not send email in HTML form since many people prefer to use email clients that are unable to display it - meaning that one has to wade through the HTML to read your message. In the Windows world, most email clients are Outlook (Express) / Thunderbird and a couple of others that can all read HTML, so this is less of an issue. (Purists will also argue that HTML does not belong in email from a philosophical point of view ;)). Maybe someone just took what you said in the wrong way? The other point raised was that Comic Sans MS is a Microsoft font - hence many people on this list won't be able to see it anyway. Comic Sans MS is available on Ubuntu, but not installed by default. > . > > So I would respectfully request a little education or pointers as to where > I can improve my email manners. Quite clearly I am ignorant of the HTML > repercussions and could do with some help in this regard . . . > > I, personally, think your email manners are fine :). > > Dave W > With regards to your original question, could it be that the people whose email opens as an attachment are those with an attached signature? Usually this is seen as an attachment with the filename signature.asc. It is also possible (but unlikely, I would think) that outlook express doesn't recognise the character encoding of these emails. Were these problems fixed in Thunderbird? For your thunderbird question, did you set the text option via the HTML section of settings in the Composition tab? Not having a windows version handy I can't describe the exact method of getting there, but I think thats where it's set. Cheers, Matt -- Matthew Vermeulen http://www.matthewv.id.au/ MatthewV @ irc.freenode.net
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