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: owner-ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk [mailto:owner-
ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk]
On
Behalf Of Phil Evans
Sent: 15 September 2009 09:59
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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
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