On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 16:53, Youssef Makki wrote: > Because some people like to use clients like Pine or mutt, I'd think > html email would look ugly. It also tends to make emails bloated, and is > the main reason why viruses spread on windows machines; not that it > affects most of us here, but still another reason to avoid it. Email was > intended to be in plaintext. Did I miss something? > Not much of this is true the "Bloat" you cite is rarely more than a <body> </body> set of tags maybe a </bold> here or their hardly enough to cause much grief. As for viruses there was one virus transmitted by HTML that only affected IE (go figure!). Really, as long as it is kept simple there isn't much disadvantage unless you want to argue for the folks using PINE or whatever. Can you imagine people griping about the bandwith wasted on color tv, cause my Black & white works fine? Maybe someone can grip about something better? as of now I'm out of this subject! Scott > > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 19:03, AMAZING POWERS OF OBSERVATION wrote: > > why must we turn off html ? i like the way html works . > > > > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 17:21, Scott Talbot wrote: > > > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 14:55, Brittany wrote: > > > > sorry for the HTML mail. > > > > When i click on a link it doesn't pop-up and it does the same when i > > > > right click it. > > > > > > > > Hope this help. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 22:03 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > > > Am Sa, den 06.03.2004 schrieb Brittany um 21:47: > > > > > > I'm having a hard time trying to find the settings of which the URL > > > > > > links that comes in that automatically gets transfer right onto to my > > > > > > web browser, Mozilla. > > > > > > > > > > > > Is their away besides having to do all of the extra copying and pasting? > > > > > > > > > > 1) Please send plain text mail to the list, not html formatted. > > > > > > > > > > 2) I do not understand your problem. You can right click on links inside > > > > > mails reading with Evolution and a new Mozilla instance will start up > > > > > accessing the link target. > > > > > > > > > > Alexander > > > > > > > > > > > > > Brittany: > > > > > > in Gnome clicking on a URL will activate the default browser which is > > > set in the Preferences->Preferred Applications app. > > > > > > I'm not sure how it is different in KDE though > > > > > > Scott >
