[Mailman-Developers] Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself...

[John W Baxter]

At 11:22 -0800 3/6/2002, Les Niles wrote:
>Most of the time you really can just strip out the HTML.  AOL,
>Outhouse, and most of the other clients that like to generate HTML
>put out multipart/alternative messages that include a text/plain
>section, so picking out the latter and dropping the other
>alternatives works pretty well.

Eudora allows selection among   plain text only, HTML only, plain and HTML
(or cancel) when sending "styled" messages.  (Mine is set up to ask each
time, with plain text being the default.)

I suspect that sending a few blank messages to a list and being chastised
for it would be sufficient training for some.


Apple's mail.app (the default mail program in Mac OS X) sends RTF, not
HTML.  (OK, so 128 point was extreme.)  And unfortunately, out of the box
it defaults to "Rich".  I don't know what the list's processing will do to
this sample.

Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:26:26 -0800
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-1-635564387
Subject: This is a style test
From: John Baxter <jwbaxter@mac.com>
To: jwblist@olympus.net
Message-Id: <D0C31A71-3148-11D6-9D28-003065F8D83E@mac.com>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481)
X-olympus-virus-scan: Encoding found - scanned

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John W. Baxter    Port Ludlow, WA, USA

The primary cause of problems is solutions.


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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA