[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've created a an association that fires up my favourite rtf editor . I could have used notepad, but the day may come when limited formatting is allowed in these posts. Why not OO - my favourite rtf editor loads at notepad speeds whereas OO takes a more than a tad longer.
Most of us get replies from this list as normal email, or through gmane where it still looks exactly like normal email. Formatting is certainly allowed in these posts. Occasionally an HTML email will appear with colors and so forth (which you may not see under your current system). But in any case its bad form to use HTML for normal EMAIL communication, especially where you don’t know whether the end user may be paying for download time. So, as with most email forums, formatting with HTML is seldom used. I really don’t see RTF formatting ever being used in any EMAILS as a standard.
I suspect ezm denotes EzMail, the mail list software calls itself "ezmlm" - EzyMail List Manager ? Why it doesn't send the posts as text attachments I don't know
The posts are created and sent and received by most of us as standard email, that is, text files formatted for email. After all, this is, primarily, a “mailing” list. People here normally use things like Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, Pine, or Mutt or various other normal email programs to handle their email, whatever they like best and can use on their operating systems, or just whatever came with their system.
Whoever has influence over this program might like to make some changes so that post attachments are sent as .txt files, or put instructions into the boilerplate response to the subscribe request suggesting folks set up a file association for "ezm" attachments to their favourite text editor.
Ao far as I know, you are only one seeing ezm attachments. And the default editors on the products I named above are usually good enough already.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezmlm the last update of Ezmlm was in 1997, over ten years ago.
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