Love thy mutt-ng users

Shawn McMahon smcmahon at eiv.com
Tue Feb 14 14:00:12 GMT 2006


On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 04:11:36PM +0000, Mark Shuttleworth said:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
>   <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
> </head>
> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000">
> Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> <blockquote cite="mid20060211115521.GB22779 at durance.shot.pl" type="cite">
>   <blockquote type="cite">
>     <pre wrap="">&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"&gt;
> &lt;html&gt;
> &lt;head&gt;
>   &lt;meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"&gt;
> &lt;/head&gt;
> &lt;body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000"&gt;
>     </pre>
>   </blockquote>
>   <pre wrap=""><!---->
> C&#8217;mon Mark, you should know better than to post in HTML-only&#8230;
>   </pre>
> </blockquote>
> Wow, I decided to do this only today, figuring that "the world has had
> good html mail readers for at least five years, everyone must have this
> sorted". Clearly not :-)<br>
> <br>
> So, should I stay with text forever? HTML is perfectly open and
> standardised now.<br>
> </body>
> </html>

Mutt users may be able to read it by piping it through lynx etc., but
this is what it will look like when we reply.  (Assuming we don't trim
quotes, which of course I would ordinarily do with gusto.)

BTW, I don't set Mutt to do this automatically, since buffer overflows
in web browsers seem to come more often than buffer overflows in Mutt.
I typically delete HTML-only mail unread; I frankly only read yours
because it's from you.  Folks who take this approach are a minority, but
we're not a tiny one, and we're decidedly vocal.  :)


-- 
   Shawn McMahon    | Ubuntu: an ancient African word meaning "I am sick
   EIV Consulting   | of compiling Gentoo".
 http://www.eiv.com |                       - Jeff Waugh (paraphrased)
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