On 23 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip]
> > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which > > make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. > > > Sorry 'bout that, but there's nothing much I can do about it from my end: > It's Yahoo Mail that's the problem. > > I have my mail set to "Plain Text" but since this is Web browser-based e-mail > I'm sure it's not 100% pure ASCII. I don't even think switching to a "real" > e-mail account would solve the problem. With almost everything these days > graphic and web-based, smartphone and tablet, the days of pure ASCII e-mail > are gone for the most part. > > Also, if I reply to a message that is other than plain text, my reply > "inherits" their formatting code. I can switch the reply to plain text, that > is, Yahoo's version of plain text, but doing so screws up the formatting and > quoting of the original message, and I'm left with the daunting task of > manually reformatting it. With short messages, this is inconvenient, but not > too much of a problem. However, with a long thread with multiple nested > layers of quoting, it is almost impossible to manually correct the > formatting. So, I just don't switch to plain text in those cases. Sorry. > > > Hope the problem is solvable from your end. Yes; it wasn't entirely your (or Yahoo's) fault. I had some lines in .muttrc which were meant, ironically, to translate such codes! Deleting them has stopped your codes appearing. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130424071223.gb4...@acampbell.org.uk
