There are two problems, I think
1. Sending a simple mail like this in anything other than plain text
is wasteful, and also enforces the sender's way of displaying it on
the reader, rather than following the reader's preference.
(That may of course be appropriate in some cases where formatting is
important, but not in this context)
2. Messages such as Norman's (and others), which seem to come from
Outlook Express or Exchange Server, specify a font size 3D2 (whatever
that means) which comes out too small to read, at least for me
The html line is:-
<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">
<Luddite> What's wrong with plain text? </Luddite>
Phil
On 15 Sep 2009, at 10:34, Ian Tickle wrote:
>
> Phil
>
> I had this same problem a while ago, if you recall. Modern e-mail
> clients sending a message in HTML format will almost certainly send it
> in 2 parts, the first a version converted to plain text and the second
> the original HTML version (and possibly other versions of the same
> message). This is the 'MIME multipart alternative' e-mail standard
> which is designed so that e-mail clients or users reading the message
> can choose the version they want to display. To quote from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Alternative : "Systems can then
> choose
> the "best" representation they are capable of processing; in general,
> this will be the last part that the system can understand".
>
> So assuming your mail client is MIME-compatible (I would have thought
> that all modern clients are) there should be an option on your mail
> reader (as there is on mine) to always display the plain text version.
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Ian
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:owner-
>> [log in to unmask]]
> On
>> Behalf Of Phil Evans
>> Sent: 15 September 2009 09:59
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] attachments
>>
>> while we're on this topic, it would be nice also if messages were
>> sent
>> in plain text, not as html (like yours, Norman :-)), particularly as
>> these ones generally come out in a tiny font in my (Apple) mail
>> reader, for some reason
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>> On 15 Sep 2009, at 09:45, Stein, Norman (STFC,DL,CSE) wrote:
>>
>>> In the past month there have been several postings to the BB with
>>> large
>>> (100kB or more) attachments. Can I remind subscribers that it is our
>>> policy to discourage attachments as, amongst other things, they can
>>> cause mailboxes to fill at an alarming rate. A link to a website
>>> carrying the data which would otherwise appear in the attachment, is
>>> more appropriate.
>>>
>>> Norman Stein
>>> CCP4
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scanned by iCritical.
>>>
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