[23110] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] -L format
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Packy Anderson)
Wed Nov 6 08:43:53 2002
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:43:44 -0500
Reply-To: packy@dardan.com
From: Packy Anderson <packy@DAFFY.DARDAN.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <F32001085EA6D211B61B00805F6FE69E04EAD601@exchsv2.ogsnet.ogs.state.ny.us> from "Vehlow,
Richard [Richard.Vehlow@OGS.STATE.NY.US]" at "Nov 6,
2002 08:31:47 am"
Vehlow, Richard [Richard.Vehlow@OGS.STATE.NY.US] writes:
> Right now, APO-L is in text-only mode. In Digest at least, more and more
> messages are becoming garbled due to web and word control characters and
> rich text.
>
> I have been on a couple of recent email lists where the Digest sends the
> messages out as separate email attachment files in the daily post. When
> you open them, they appear as they should be. Attachments, font styles
> and all. Isn't it about time to go to this format for the list?
>
I'd vote a hearty NO. It's bad enough that individual messages are coming
through in HTML and RTF, but if the entire digest came through as a bunch
of MIME attachments it would make this list nigh-impossible to read for
people who aren't using Microsoft Outlook to read their email. Personally,
I am unable to read almost half the email messages on APO-L from work
because of the way they are formatted; I have to save them and wait until I
get home.
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I'd say the better response would be to remind people that APO-L is a text
only list, and that they should turn off Rich Text Formatting when they
send messages to the list. Yes, it means that they're not able to select
the font size and color for their messages, but it does ensure that
everyone on the list is able to read their messages.
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YiLFS,
-packy
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