From: Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:37:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081009213754.GA8807@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EE26AE.1010203@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:43:42AM -0400, Penguin Lover Mike squawked:
> Erik Hahn wrote:
>
>>>> Please, disable HTML in your client or at least tell it to send a plain
>>>> text version as well. I see hardly readable raw HTML code in mutt.
>
> You may want to add this line to muttrc:
>
> auto_view text/html
>
That doesn't always help: I've been griping about this on my local TUG
list just recently. Some (web)mail clients, when sending HTML
mails, uses some sort of funky graphics/CSS formatting to denote
quotes, and sometimes they even strip the quote marks ('>') that sane
mail clients insert and replace them with their funky graphics.
I complained to my local TUG this time because some guy responded an
e-mail 6 or 7 level down in a thread and auto_view + dumping of html
by lynx makes the quotes completely disappear, and the discussion
becomes completely impossible to follow!
Besides: if one is already using the bandwidth to send mail in HTML,
why not make it MIME-multipart with a plain text version included too?
(BTW, the above gripe is not directed at anyone on this list in
particular, rather is an anecdote to illustrate a point.)
W
--
"I assume you've all done stationary phase integrals...right?"
~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 13:52 [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers Pawel K
2008-10-09 14:00 ` Sascha Hlusiak
2008-10-09 16:53 ` Erik Hahn
2008-10-09 15:04 ` Norberto Bensa
2008-10-09 15:40 ` Erik Hahn
2008-10-09 15:43 ` Mike
2008-10-09 21:37 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2008-10-09 21:42 ` Mike
2008-10-09 22:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-09 23:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-09 23:04 ` Robert Bridge
2008-10-09 23:21 ` Willie Wong
2008-10-10 6:22 ` HTML emails was: " Stroller
2008-10-09 23:12 ` Andrey Falko
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