[GEM Development] Test (No December monthly notice!)

[Peter Green]

Thanks, Michael!

I have a better idea now of what was happening at your end.

Cheers -- and fröhliche Weihnachten!

In fact, (to all): A merry Christmas on yez all!

Peter


Michael Bernstein wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> thank you for switching to text mails. This is much more easy for me to
> handle.
>
>   
>> I don't know what you are referring to with "empty mail" and not being 
>> able to get my mailtext,
>>     
>
> This is exactly what i wrote. My mailer display only text parts and has
> to start a browser to display the html part. If i read your mails, i got
> a empty page. I had to list all attachements, select the html part and
> then select view to get the html part displayed. And if i want to reply,
> the text part is pre-quoted to the new mail by my mailer to allow quote
> parts of your meail. Because your mails dont have a text part, there is
> nothing there.
>
>   
>> as all the posts including my own seem legible under my settings.
>>     
>
> Yes, if your mailer views automatily the html part, you dont see it. It
> is not the case, that there is no text inside your mails. It is only the
> problem of handling. It is the same as you send any other attachements.
> I have manually call the appropriate viewer.
>
>   
>> Many years ago everyone was using plain text on the GEM site,
>>     
>
> This is also still now the case. Your mails are the only mails which had
> no text parts.
>
>   
>> but I'd assumed that that was no longer an issue, so had just accepted
>> the Firefox default.
>>     
>
> It depends on the mail reader someone uses. I dont use a browser. And
> send mails as html instead of text is nonsense in my opinion. There is
> no reason for it because nearly nobody uses the formating possibilities.
> But it opens the door for phishing, viruses, ..., pictures (hidden or
> not) located at the web allowed tracking of you because they see if you
> open the mail. Lok at your spam. Most of them is html,
>
> Michael
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