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From: Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] HTML mail
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Satya wrote:
>
> > On Feb 9, 2000 at 14:54, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> >
> > > Some mailers however do not allow users to edit the original text,
which
> > > is why we cannot be too strict with this.
> >
> > Examples? These mailers are broken, one should not use them.
>
> I can't say cause I haven't tried any of these. I've heard that lotus
> notes has problems (it also has problems with html mail) but this may have
> changed now. Does anyone have experience with this? In any case, the
> fact that 14 out of 20 mails recd from the group have replies above the
> original message means either that people don't read instructions, or that
> something is stopping them.
All mailers have an option in sending the mail in HTML/plain text format .
wheather it may be Microsoft exchange / Lotus Notes ( notes 4.5 had a
problem as everything was uuencoded and the HTML setting was dependent on
the server .. this has changed since R5 ) , Outlook has this option and it
can be used to explicitly to send text mail ..
This wasn't a major issue and hence it was kept pending . I was testing some
scripts . (Procmail security / html parsing scripts ) but the mails were not
coming as desired .( The content was disrupted ) . Also many people were
having TCP/IP accounts due to the increasing number of private ISP's and
this wasn;t a priority anymore ( sorry for taking this point of view ) and
it was not worth the trouble for trying this on the mailing list . ( the ml
had some problems in between and we've had a rough patch ) . However we can
test in the "testing" list for this .
Contact me with the necessary scripts ..
>
> > > BTW, your iconmail address is bouncing. Hence the reply to the entire
> > > group.
> >
> > Hey, can we please remove bouncing members? I've been unsubscribed twice
> > after my mails 'generated excessive bounces'.
These bounces are being generated usually by users from chequemail .
Usually the unsubscribe mark was 4 but after getting some sound advice from
a List member it was raised to 8 bounces.
After which the user is unsubscribed.
>
> I think we could upgrade the mailing list script. Who's handling it right
> now? If you could pass it over to me, I think I can write a small html
> parser that will convert an html mail to plain text.
sure . pass it along . we'll try it on the digest ML
Regards
Sandesh
>
> > > PS: I can only read your mails after I choose Reply.
> >
> > It's time for VSNL to upgrade Pine:
>
> Not really. Since they are stopping shell accounts altogether, there is
> no reason why they should upgrade for the sake of a few months and so few
> users. They have upgraded systems in the past whenever I've complained
> about certain services not working.
>
> > "From: Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > "Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000209144308.16553B-100000@giasbma>
> >
> > 4.10 at least does html.
>
> I know, I use 4.10 at home.
>
>
> Philip
>
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