Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?)
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 19:23:39 -0800, rusi wrote: The problem is that then your other mails (may) become plain text and your friends/recipients will wonder whether you've entered a time-machine and gone back to 1990!! Not everything that's changed since 1990 has been an improvement. Many people find it simpler to just use Google groups. It also has its problems (as do all methods!) but in sum its the easiest option to use. How ironic. After mocking those of us who prefer to send and receive plain text, you then recommend that people use a delivery mechanism which sends plain text. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?)
On 12 Dec 2013 11:05:35 GMT, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 19:23:39 -0800, rusi wrote: The problem is that then your other mails (may) become plain text and your friends/recipients will wonder whether you've entered a time-machine and gone back to 1990!! Not everything that's changed since 1990 has been an improvement. And vice versa. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?)
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: I found a remove formatting button in gmail's composer, and used it on this message. Does this message look like plain text? Still sent with an HTML part, so some other change must be needed to disable that. Check the default formatting in the settings, or perhaps instead of no signature there is an empty signature selected that is adding formatting? There isn't a lot of e-mail programs that don't do HTML anymore. Many of the better mail clients allow the user to explicitly stop rendering HTML (but still have it available, as Steven points out). Unfortunately, Gmail has recently moved away from the explicit toggle and now only has that Remove formatting command, which will remove any existing formatting from the draft but won't necessarily prevent it from accidentally slipping back in. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?)
On Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:42:42 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: Dan Stromberg writes: I found a remove formatting button in gmail's composer, and used it on this message. Does this message look like plain text? Still sent with an HTML part, so some other change must be needed to disable that. There isn't a lot of e-mail programs that don't do HTML anymore. Many of the better mail clients allow the user to explicitly stop rendering HTML (but still have it available, as Steven points out). Disabling HTML in messages is a good idea: HTML rarely adds anything useful to a message in a discussion forum, but it can cause the mail program to do actions unwanted by the user (e.g. fetch images from elsewhere, or run ECMAScript, or invoke HTML rendering bugs). When you click on send/reply in gmail, there's a small down-triangle next to the dustbin, inside which you will find a plain text option The problem is that then your other mails (may) become plain text and your friends/recipients will wonder whether you've entered a time-machine and gone back to 1990!! Many people find it simpler to just use Google groups. It also has its problems (as do all methods!) but in sum its the easiest option to use. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?)
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:23 PM, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: When you click on send/reply in gmail, there's a small down-triangle next to the dustbin, inside which you will find a plain text option The problem is that then your other mails (may) become plain text and your friends/recipients will wonder whether you've entered a time-machine and gone back to 1990!! Or maybe they'll wonder if you've just magically changed your font settings to be exactly what they most want to read, because you're no longer sending text that's too large / too small for them to comfortably read. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
