In a message dated 12/28/04 6:28:56 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> agoodall@att.net writes:
> On 23 Dec 2004 at 23:00, The GZG Digest wrote:
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:45:52 -0500
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I've posted before about this and it's been ignored, or some folks don't
realize they are sending HTML as well as plain text. Since it clogs up the
digest I tend to just skim right over those messages without reading them;
unfortunately that means more than once I've missed the message that follows
right after it...
Well, I think one can turn it off HTML on the Yahoo groups (not sure but I
think it sends in plain text) but ironically I need HTML to read in an
intelligible fashion some of the bead newsletters I get via e-mail.
Since THIS LIST (emphasis not volume) isn't a Yahoo list I am in a quandary
how I am to send plain text to it only when I need HTML to read the bead
newsletters I get
via my e-mail on AOL. I assume you can select HTML or plain text in
AOL (somewhere) but I doubt I can have it plain text for this list only. I
have no idea whether you can send plain text and 'receive' HTML in AOL. I
usually use the default settings unless and until I am aware of the
alternatives.
Suggestions on a solution will be considered. Not necessarily implemented if
they make my life complicated but certainly considered.
When I had Juno and could ONLY send in plain text my personal frustration was
MIME format AND HTML (Brigade Games newsletter, IIRC, was sent in the latter
and several posters used MIME so I understand about unintelligible messages.)
In addition, Juno used to turn attachments into pages and pages of
'characters' which was the worst -- instant full mail box problems.
Technology solves one problem only to create two more.
And I was on the Digest version of this list, among others, for a short
while and one of the reasons I hate digests (besides the lack of snipping
people perform) was the difficulty in reading (and responding to) individual
postings in the digest. The worst was a digest full of MIME messages (instant
duplication of each (unsnipped) message). I once read a series of messages
between several people that featured an involved exchange where each unsnipped
message carried the same series of postings -- plus the new comment(s)
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 06:05:02AM -0500, Warbeads@aol.com wrote:
See http://www.expita.com/nomime.html#programs for your AOL version.
> > When you post to the List, please use PLAIN TEXT only.
I am one of those fundamentalists who reads mail under linux using mutt. I am
all for plain text, but mutt strips all html and word before I get to see
anything, so most of the time I am not aware of
what people are sending me:-)
However, I must admit that this is probably a losing battle.
> Frits Kuijlman <frits@kuijlman.net> wrote:
> I am one of those fundamentalists who reads mail under linux using
Plain text represent! I'm using pine, myself. And it was only the march of
technology that prevented me from still using Berkeley mail.
-P.
In a message dated 12/30/04 2:00:56 AM,
> owner-gzg-digest@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU writes:
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:13:44 +0000
The problem is when AOL updated for MAC OS X there is no non-HTML
feature, or if so no one including AOL help staff knows how to do it.
I been reading this as a digest since I joined. What more annoying the
the HTML forms are the people who post the whole of someone else email,
instead of just snipping what they are resonding too.
Have a Good One, DOC Agren    (Lurker on the Digest)
In a message dated 12/30/2004 11:23:27 AM Central Standard Time,
> DOCAgren@aol.com writes:
The problem is when AOL updated for MAC OS X there is no non-HTML
feature, or if so no one including AOL help staff knows how to do it.
I been reading this as a digest since I joined. What more annoying the the
HTML forms are the people who post the whole of someone else email, instead of
just snipping what they are resonding too.
AOL 8.0 and 9.0 have no provision for sending non-HTML. Most 'unlimited"
services in the U.S. have no interest in bandwidth as a measure of cost to the
customer. AOL 6 and 7 could handle it my highlighting the text and
right-clicking
and sending as text only. That feature is gone in the more advanced versions.
-----------------Scratch all that. They say they have no provision for
it, but that's not true. highlight the message you wish to mail. Right click,
select
<Compose as Plain Text> and it changes form before you mail it - which
is better than the old system.
Now remembering ot use it all the time is going to be a bitch.
Regards,
Scott
In a message dated 12/31/04 7:46:47 AM,
> owner-gzg-digest@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU writes:
> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:32:30 EST
Well, Scott..
AOL didn't even include this option in their's for MAC OSX... before I
upgraded all MAC AOL software was non-HTML email.
Have a Good One, DOC Agren    (Lurker on the Digest)