Re: unsubsrib
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 12 November 2005 14:35, Steve Lamb wrote:
>
>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Y'know, I didn't see your signature and certainly don't consider
>>Thunderbird broken. Of course it is because I installed the Quote
>>Colors extension and have signatures hidden. I call that a
>>preference. :P
>
> And its preventing you from seeing the unsubscribe instructions
> appended to every message comeing through these servers.
That's not the only place they appear in the message.....
> You choice if you want to look like you just got off the bus.
Um.. Naah, I'll just let that one go. I'd have waay to much fun with it.
>
> I looked at Thunderbird because a friend was raving about it. It
> didn't impress me, but then I'm used to kmail from kde 3.3.0.
> Html doodads are nothing but a PITA that quadruples the size of the message,
Agreed. But in many cases I don't mind.
> email should be pure text.
Point me to the RFC. I'd not heard that before.
If this were truly the case, your beloved KMail would not allow one to
compose/read HTML emails.
On a related note, I won't argue that HTML on a mailing list is a no-no,
unless the list admin specifically states otherwise. I've seen a few
lists that allow it but they are rather rare. I only use HTML in email
when it's a personal email, to someone I know and whom I know can read
them (e.g. I know they use Kmail and not Mutt).
> TBird makes that difficult IMO.
Not difficult at all. Quite easy, actually. The last time I looked at
Kmail the settings were similar.
> It's pretty, yes, but its usability to me is a -1.
It's great by itself and downright awesome after some downloads from
https://addons.mozilla.org
>
> And you cannot count either. I could get rid of the Openoffice blurb,
> but the rest stays, its been there for years and you are the first to
> complain in about 7 years now...
I find this amusing coming from someone who dictates that "[all] emails
should be pure [plain] text"
You might want to take a look @ http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
(Wow a URL pointing to a plain text file on a web site!).
Allow me to quote from there:
"If you include a signature keep it short. Rule of thumb is no longer
than 4 lines. "
As a matter of fact, most NNTP servers and a number of mailing lists,
remove anything in a sig after the 4th line.
Big sigs are just downright obnoxious and there are a number of client
programs and scripts out there that were written to remove/obscure them
from email/usenet postings. They are really useless for the most part
(mine included). All the information you *really* need can be found in
the headers of the message.
--
Scott
www.angrykeyboarder.com
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