[ale] Line wrap in Mozilla versus shell based email
Preston Boyington
PBoyington at polyengineering.com
Tue Jan 6 11:24:32 EST 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Hardie
>
>
> Dow Hurst wrote:
> > Thanks for checking that! I don't want to post emails to
> list in an
> > impolite form. Should I set the compose window to plain
> text format as
> > the default?
>
> Personally, I find HTML email impolite, because it's used by
> nearly all spam,
> both for the annoyance factor of blinking red 32-pt text, and
> for the web bug
> tracking capabilities. I send plain text, and receive plain text.
> --
> Pete Hardie
>
One feature I liked about The Bat! (www.ritlabs.com/) on my Windows machine
was the way it displayed my email. It has a tab at the bottom that switches
from showing you the email in plain text to html (should it have been
originally created in an html format). i prefer plain text for email and
try to have my messages created in this same way for others, although i
don't have much control on the "other side" of my work computer (they use
Exchange and i am not supposed to use any other program but Outlook for
email).
As a side note, in the past there was talk of The Bat! being ported to Linux
(it's written in delphi i believe) and if that should come to pass i will
buy it. in the several years since i started using it on my Windows
machines i never had any problems and loved its' features.
is anyone on the list using Mozilla Thunderbird? how is it progressing?
--
preston
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