Bob Schwier on Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:16:05 -0400


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Re: PLUG - The Happy Fun List! - [Was: Re: [PLUG] KDE 3.0...is slow]


Hear, hear.
bs


On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Mike Leone wrote:

> * lists (lists@linuxprofessional.net) wrote this on 10 03, 02 at 20:10: 
> 
> Actually, that message was not in text; it was still HTML. In general, HTML
> is frowned up on mailing lists, for the reasons cited. However, you can
> usually easily configure HTML to be displayed using w3m or links or similar
> HTML console based app. that's what I do, under mutt, and what I needed to
> do to view your post.
> 
> Your posts, however, are a bit different. :-) Most times, an HTML post has 2
> parts - the HTML version, and an accompanying plain text version. When I use
>  a console based mailer, I look at the plain text version. Yours
> have no plain text version, tho - it only comes as "text/html", and has no
> plain text version accompanying it.
> 
> I suggest trying that plain text only option again.
> 
> 

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