I used the client I had access to at the time, there is no way to shut off html on it. Asked nicely or not won't really change that. -----Original Message----- From: Troy.A Johnson [mailto:troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:05 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org; Don Sparish Subject: Re: [tclug-list] HTML mail (was: exact match using grep) Hi Don, Annoying others is not the goal of this email list. And if you need someone to ask you nicely to stop using HTML email on this email list, I certainly will: Please stop senting HTML email to this email list. Thank you for your kind consideration, Troy Johnson >>> "Don Sparish" <dalan at visi.com> 2/29/2008 2:43 PM >>> Since it seems to annoy him so much I'll just keep on using it. On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:12:51 -0600 "Samir M. Nassar" <samir.nassar+tclug at steamedpenguin.com> wrote: > On Friday 29 February 2008 13:41:24 Brian Dunnette >wrote: > >> Every time you use a mail client that doesn't gracefully >>deal with HTML, >> another Ron Paul story appears on Reddit. > > My mail client deals just fine with HTML. I don't have >my mail client set to > automagically parse HTML. I also make sure that when I >use a mail client that > I don't send out HTML mail. Mail clients read and >display text just fine. > They even have decent conventions for quoting mail. > > Attached are html.txt and message.txt > > message.txt weighs in at 553 bytes > html.txt weighs in at 256 bytes > > If the formatting had added anything of worth, fine. But >in this case the text > was not marked up. You know, the Markup in Hyper-text >Markup Language? Why > would you need to markup anyway? Since you are throwing >around graceful > clients, how graceful is a mail client when it can parse >HTML but can't turn > a lonely URL into a link? > > If you notice, the HTML itself sucks sweaty goat balls, >all repetitive break > tags. If you are sending HTML mail, why again is the >mail client using font > declarations? > > Lastly it is a pretty long standing convention to not >abuse mailing lists by > sending HTML mail. > > Samir M. Nassar > > PS- Thank you for changing the subject line, something I >neglected to do.