OT: HTML Emails -- Re: Other than frys where would you get server hardware

Mon Feb 2 14:20:03 MST 2009

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com>wrote:

> There are, in fact, a few of us (like me) who use text only readers for
> various reasons (such as visual impairment) and html formatted messages
> are definitely the bane of out existence.
>
> its been proper etiquette on the internet since its inception that mail
> usually is plain text and if you wish to send media (pictures, etc) that
> its attached (in mime printable form). this may seem archaic, but it
> generally works out well for most of us.
>
> now my client here can read html formatted messages, but the speech
> device will not read me the output, instead it will read the underlying
> source of the text (which gets noisy, frustrating, and tends to have me
> filter such without even reading it)
>
> I, for one, have a problem with such mails and tend to filter them into
> the junk box. if anything important gets in there, its gone (if its
> really important, the sender will have sent as plain text with an html
> attachment <preferred>. this way, I can still read it and those with
> extra features can use the html to their own contentment).
>
> sorry of I may seem a bit terse toward those using html formatted text
> messages, but you folks should be aware there are almost 30 million
> others like me and we would rather not have our lives made any harder
> than it already is.
>
> JD Austin wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Nathan England
> > <nathan at paysonlinux.org <mailto:nathan at paysonlinux.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:49:48 Patrick Jacques wrote:
> >     > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> >     > <html>
> >
> >     Is there a way for mailman or whatever the mail list manager is to
> >     wipe out
> >     html messages and only send the plain text?
> >
> >     Or better yet, is there a way for my procmail to do it?
> >
> >     nathan
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> > I never have understood why some people have an issue with html mail;
> > unless you view mail on a teletype machine you can choose how it is
> > displayed.  Most modern mail clients have an option to view the text
> > version of the email instead of html.   In Thunderbird it is in view
> > -> message body as plain text.
> >
> > --
> > JD Austin
> > Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
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> > 480.288.8195x201
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> > ones that need the advice."
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On this particular email list you might get the rest of the 'world' to
conform to your particular circumstances but it's not likely for society as
a whole.  Have you looked in to modernizing your speech device?  Even
without it there are open source text to speech applications such as flite
or cepstral that you could be utilized to make a modern email client talk.
I bet if you ask the right people at Mozilla they might even put a hook into
Thunderbird if there isn't one already.

--
JD Austin
Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
jd at twingeckos.com
480.288.8195x201
http://www.twingeckos.com

Calvin Trillin  - "Health food makes me sick."
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