Thank you for answering my query. Fonts and colors are reset to defaults now. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Regards, Shawool On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:33:53 +1100, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > >Dave Angel wrote: > > > >> Or even better: Don't use html email for forum messages. It frequently > >> messes up the colors, the font, the formatting (like indentation), or > >> even prevents some people from even seeing and/or replying to the > >> message. Put the email program in text mode, and just send what you > >> want people to see. > > > > > >I agree, but alas the horse has bolted and the idiots have taken over. > > > >We cannot stop the great mass of people sending HTML mail, but there is no > >reason why we have to *read* HTML email. Even today, most mail clients > will > >send a plain text part that contains the same content as the HTML part, > and > >any decent mail client can be set to prefer the plain text part in > >preference to rendering the HTML. > > > >For those few cases where there is no plain text part[1], the better mail > >clients (such as mutt) will include an option to dump the raw HTML to > plain > >text, minus all the tags. > > > >Last but not least, for the *vanishingly small* number of cases that has > no > >plain text part, and the formatting of the text dump is unreadable, or > >where the formatting of the HTML is actually essential to understanding > the > >post, then you have a choice of pressing Delete on the message or > rendering > >the HTML. But rendering HTML should never be the default. > > I had a message, discussed in another NG, inviting me to look at someone's > family tree on the web. It had no plain text version, and when I clicked on > the relevant link, it crashed my mail reader. > > When I right-clicked on the link and tried to copy the URL to paste ibnto > the > address line of my web browser, it led to a "file not found" page. > > The HTML was enormously complex, and all they were supposed to be sending > was > a simple link. > > >[1] Or worse, one of those shitty messages that include a plain text part > >that says "Your mail program cannot read this email. Please upgrade to a > >better mail program." > > I usually reply to those saying "So why did you send it to me?" > > I suspect that in most cases the senders do not know that that is what > their > mail program is sending, and do it to let them know that their mesdsage > could > not be read. > > > -- > Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa > Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm > Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com > E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop > uk > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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