Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 12 November 2005 14:35, Steve Lamb wrote: > >>Gene Heskett wrote: >> Y'know, I didn't see your signature and certainly don't consider >>Thunderbird broken. Of course it is because I installed the Quote >>Colors extension and have signatures hidden. I call that a >>preference. :P > > And its preventing you from seeing the unsubscribe instructions > appended to every message comeing through these servers.
That's not the only place they appear in the message..... > You choice if you want to look like you just got off the bus. Um.. Naah, I'll just let that one go. I'd have waay to much fun with it. > > I looked at Thunderbird because a friend was raving about it. It > didn't impress me, but then I'm used to kmail from kde 3.3.0. > Html doodads are nothing but a PITA that quadruples the size of the message, Agreed. But in many cases I don't mind. > email should be pure text. Point me to the RFC. I'd not heard that before. If this were truly the case, your beloved KMail would not allow one to compose/read HTML emails. On a related note, I won't argue that HTML on a mailing list is a no-no, unless the list admin specifically states otherwise. I've seen a few lists that allow it but they are rather rare. I only use HTML in email when it's a personal email, to someone I know and whom I know can read them (e.g. I know they use Kmail and not Mutt). > TBird makes that difficult IMO. Not difficult at all. Quite easy, actually. The last time I looked at Kmail the settings were similar. > It's pretty, yes, but its usability to me is a -1. It's great by itself and downright awesome after some downloads from https://addons.mozilla.org > > And you cannot count either. I could get rid of the Openoffice blurb, > but the rest stays, its been there for years and you are the first to > complain in about 7 years now... I find this amusing coming from someone who dictates that "[all] emails should be pure [plain] text" You might want to take a look @ http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt (Wow a URL pointing to a plain text file on a web site!). Allow me to quote from there: "If you include a signature keep it short. Rule of thumb is no longer than 4 lines. " As a matter of fact, most NNTP servers and a number of mailing lists, remove anything in a sig after the 4th line. Big sigs are just downright obnoxious and there are a number of client programs and scripts out there that were written to remove/obscure them from email/usenet postings. They are really useless for the most part (mine included). All the information you *really* need can be found in the headers of the message. -- Scott www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2005 angrykeyboarder & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved
