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Re: Woody Impressions



"Mike Fedyk" <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:55:55PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote:
> > Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:26:37PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > > > Oh- a couple more Mozilla goodies: more markup of text emails, like 
> > > > stuff *between asterisks* is made bold, signature text after and 
> > > > including a -- line is grey, and emoticons are displayed as cute 
> > > > pixmaps.  Okay, I'm a sucker for eye candy, then complain about 
> > > > bloatednes; so sue me. :-)
> > 
> > > Uh, I can do that in mutt, except for the pixmaps.  I used to use netscape
> > > for email, and now use exim/mutt/procmail.  If you want a powerful email
> > > client, please use one that was made for it.
> > 
> > Well, just to be a pain.
> > 
> > Gnus does all this stuff as well, including the annoying little
> > emoticons.  

Two annoying things about recent versions of Gnus:
* I can't turn off emoticons (and it looks really stupid in source
  code patches)
* It turns on reading of HTML'ized mail by default (and I can't figure
  out how to turn it off).

Other than that, Gnus rocks.

jas.



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