On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:48PM -0800, Scott Talbot wrote: Well, I use Mutt. I can read HTML mail just fine, though for lists like this, there really is no need for it. HTML is just Windows dressing... and sometimes, most especially when I am emailing someone I wish to impress for some reason, I will use Evolution with an HTML signature block that includes a .gif of my signature. Not necessary on a list, though. > 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 > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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