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

Mon Feb 2 13:33:52 MST 2009

Yes, the Drupal mailman plugin will allow for mail to be sent HTML only, and the user can specify this.

There is a great deal that can be done with Drupal/mailman that we are not doing, including automatic schedule announcements and promotions integrated with the user features or just allowed via user event registration.

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> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:23:31 -0700
> From: technomage.hawke at gmail.com
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: OT: HTML Emails -- Re: Other than frys where would you get server	hardware
> 
> 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
> > jd at twingeckos.com <mailto:jd at twingeckos.com>
> > 480.288.8195x201
> > http://www.twingeckos.com
> >
> >
> > Bill Cosby  - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid 
> > ones that need the advice."
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