Re: Newbie alert

["Mark M. Wilson" <mmwilson ncsl dcr state nc us>]

Thanks for the handy tip.  I'm doing all of my emailing from a Windows98
machine at work; my Linux box is at home, w/o a modem.  Ironic, isn't
it, that I should suppose that everyone is reading an html-intensive GUI
à la MS Win98, all while trying to participate in a forum which is
pretty much dedicated to eschewing the same! Duhhhh... Well, you learn
something new every day.  I appreciate those of you who are kinder,
gentler towards newbies.  It's good for all of us to remember we weren't
born knowing this stuff.  I've about decided y'all are out of my league,
anyway.
Merci beacoup.
Mark

"John R. Sheets" wrote:
> 
> On Oct 25, 1999, "Mark M. Wilson" <mmwilson@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us> wrote:
> > I didn't realize that was an understood "rule." Mea culpa. I suppose richtext
> > is out of the question as well? Anyway, I provided examples of what I was
> > talking about, and was able to get helpful responses nonetheless.  Fancy that.
> > :-}
> 
> Well, a lot of us use text-based console mailers, like Mutt and Pine,
> which don't automatically render HTML.  If any of us try to read or
> quote your text back, it would contain the raw HTML tags, which makes
> for ugly reading, and especially a lot of hassle when trying to reply.
> You may have missed a number of useful replies because of this.
> 
> Anyway, it's common courtesy.  (c:  At the *very* least, figure out how
> to send both plain text and HTML.  You can do this with Communicator.
> The best solution is to not send HTML at all to public mailing lists.
> 
> Cheers,
> John