[mythtv-users] A General Directions Question

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/05/2008 05:44 PM, steve wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 17:34 -0400, Chuck Filson wrote:
>   
>> On July 5, 2008 03:28:38 pm Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:22:52AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>>>       
>>>> BTW, Please use text only and not HTML or rich text. That font is
>>>> really hard on my eyes in gmail. It caused me so much eyestrain that I
>>>> gave up reading after the first paragraph.
>>>>         
>>> Using non-HTML mail on lists is an excellent idea, yes...
>>>
>>> but the libertarian in me says that if you don't like how his email
>>> displays, you should find the "ignore incoming fonts and colors" knob
>>> on your MUA, or switch clients.  :-)
>> Or delete it and move on!
> Im sure some people (like me) use the same email account for everything.
> I find it a pain to keep switching back and forth between html mail

True, so when you receive the advertisements from newegg or buy.com or 
amazon and want to scan them for sales on HDD's, you have to go to 
HTML.  Then, you're reading the list and someone's MUA sent an extremely 
ugly HTML message with indents instead of quotations and you need to 
switch to plain text so that the message starts out closer to properly 
formatted when you reply.  Then, someone else on the list sent a message 
and their MUA decided that folks reading the plain text version don't 
need to see everything, so you have to switch to HTML to get the rest of 
the message and ...

So, Mozilla Messaging folk, where's the built-in shortcut key for 
changing the view from HTML to plain text?  Thank users for extensions.

>  when
> I have something I want to forward someone else or send something to
> someone thats a say a picture or graphics and not to a mailing list.

Which is why MUA's have a "plain text domains" option.  Everything I 
send to any e-mail account at mythtv.org (or a number of other domains) 
is automatically sent in plain text only.

>   Im
> completely guessing here, but probably close ..99% of the world uses
> html mail and the small majority like mailing lists that do not, its a
> problem. (ive learned to deal with it) I agree that when posting to
> lists it should be text, but I sometimes too forget what I am configured
> to send as html because I switch back and forth many times a day.

Check out the plain text domains option for your MUA.

Mike