Fedora Weekly News 286 -- and all the rest of your "Fedora Weekly News"
Paul W. Frields
stickster at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 20:31:02 UTC 2011
Hi Pascal,
Just so you know, I appreciate your efforts just as much regardless of
format, since my mail reader, like most, is capable of showing the
proper format regardless (Mutt in my case). However, I also
appreciate that you want to serve the community as well as possible
which I think should be applauded too.
I seem to recall there's an option in Outlook that allows you to send
plain text email, or turn off HTML/rich text, on a per-mail basis. At
least there was the last time I used it, probably Outlook 2003
(yikes!) -- under Options, I believe. If anyone here has more
reliable help to offer, please have at it. :-)
Paul
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:27:10PM +0000, Pascal Calarco wrote:
> Hi George --
>
> Thanks for the feedback; I hope you don't mind if I share with the
> rest of the FWN team.
>
> Apologies; I sent this out with Outlook; yep, that's what I have to
> use at work. I'll endeavor to send this out as ASCII for future
> issues, via Thunderbird instead.
>
> Best,
>
> - pascal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: g [mailto:geleem at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:16 PM
> To: Pascal Calarco
> Subject: Re: Fedora Weekly News 286 -- and all the rest of your "Fedora Weekly News"
>
> On 09/28/2011 01:25 PM, Pascal Calarco wrote:
> > 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 286
> <snip>
>
> Pascal,
>
> _Why_ do you send "Fedora Weekly News" with 'text / html'?
>
> to do so is entirely unnecessary.
>
>
> you are not writing a web page, you do not use any fancy type, you
> do not use any graphics.
>
> you *are* sending a weekly news notice.
>
>
> sending 'text / html' is nothing but a waste of bandwidth and space.
>
>
> in past, i enjoyed reading "Fedora Weekly News", now that you are
> writing it, it is has become, for want of a better word, pain.
>
> i filter 'text / html' to a separate folder so i can deleted waste
> from my hard drive. because you use 'text / html', i have to look
> for it before i delete waste.
>
>
> please reconsider using 'text / html' and start using 'text / plain'
> like previous author did.
>
>
> i and many other readers who filter 'text / html' will appreciate
> your efforts more.
>
>
> thank you for your consideration.
>
>
> peace out.
>
> take care. have a good one.
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