[plug] email message formats - was Re: [plug] Urgent Sale...sorry about the repeat post

[Mike]

I wonder if you notice the tone of your post in respect of the
irony of your signoff - signature

*grin*

Mike

PS: In the opinion of most concious linux users, I would expect it
would be 'great' to challenge Microsoft of fudging standards and
producing medicore code, therefore all those that do not accept the
common 'resonableness' of Outlook etc must be 'great men' :o)

"Only the mediocore are always at their best"

<sigh>




At 06:54 PM 20/12/2000 +0800, "Scott" <scott at bizzpro.com.au> wrote:
>Do you really have that many enemies that you are constantly worried about
>cookies, e-mail that use more than plain text, how ppl send their E-mail.
>Loosen up.
>All the things you don't like are here to stay. 10 years ago the internet
>was Academics, 5 years ago it was the geeks and now it is every one. The
>internet and the way it is used will from here on in, cater to the lowest
>common denomenator. Whether that is cookies or e-mail that uses that
>marvellous invention called HTML, the ppl who write the software will always
>be trying to make it easier. Along with easier also more problems but hey,
>that is the way the world is.
>
>Some ppl spend more time worrying about their computer security than their
>own house. I am not saying that security isn't an issue but it shouldn't be
>a contant focus on everything you do or everything you say.
>The only other choice you have is to be George Bernard Shaw's "Great Man"
>and have a social revolution. The only problem with that is the people who
>have changed the world quite often really suffered for their beliefs, off
>the top of my head crucified, burned at the stake, shot, shot and
>imprisoned.
>
>Sorry for the "not really" linux based e-mail but i've been wanting to say
>it for a while.
>
>Scott
>P.S.
>"A good man adapts himself to the world, while the great man adapts the
>world to himself therefore, all progress relies on the great man."
>George Bernard Shaw
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bret Busby" <bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au>
>To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 5:25 PM
>Subject: [plug] email message formats - was Re: [plug] Urgent Sale...sorry
>about the repeat post
>
>
>> Scott wrote:
>> >
>> > Actually it came out perfectly on mine i guess that is because i am
>using OE
>> > as well. Does anyone know of a linux version that can download hotmail
>as
>> > well , I don't.
>> > I also use Netscape on my linux box and i have never had any problems
>> > recieving OE mail except that it has a white background.
>> > I am not sure if it is the senders problem your mail reader is not up to
>the
>> > task of decoding the message properly.
>> >
>> > Scott
>>
>> If you use Netscape on Linux, do you have the View->View Attachments
>> Inline flag set?
>>
>> To have that set, from what I understand, is dangerous, as, if an email
>> contains malicious code, it is automatically run, when viewing the
>> email, whereas, having the switch turned off, should avoid that, but
>> causes messages that are not plain text, to be regarded as attachments,
>> apart from pure HTML, which displays as web pages (which is infuriating,
>> when people send emails as web pages, and, I waste time waiting for
>> messages to display as HTML output).
>>
>> If you are going to use an email provider that is a subsidiary of
>> Microsoft, do you really expect to be able to access it, with a Linux
>> based web browser? from what I understand, yahoo provides a decent free
>> email service, and, I do not know that it is oriented toward Microsoft.
>>
>> I have received Outlook, and, Outlook Express, messages, without any
>> problems, when the message senders have set the application up to send
>> in plain text format.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bret Busby
>>
>> ......................................
>> "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the
>> answer means."
>>  - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>>  - Douglas Adams, 1988
>> ......................................
>>
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