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Am 15.09.2009 11:46, schrieb Phil Evans:
> 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:[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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