I'll put a copy up so that, when you tell people to change to plain text, they can learn how by going to the link. I think the biggest problem with these messages is that 1. you assume people know what plaint text is (they don't) and 2. that once they figure that out, they know where to look in their email client to tweak the setting. (I hear tell that MS outlook makes it extremely difficult and, if ppl are writing from a work account, it is sometimes impossible to change. but that was via my partner who had to use Outllook at his old job.)
Get a better compliance rate by, uh, not treating lbo readers like software engineers treat their (l)users. :)
we need instructions for following:
ms outlook express ms outlook pro eudora (i'll do) thunderbird opera mail nutscrape mail
what else?
who volunteers? Ravi? Dwayne? Who else?
At 01:40 PM 12/21/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
>On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>I hate those posts with indented text and different colors and all the
>>other fucking bells & whistles which Outlook or something or other
>>puts
>>on them
>>
>>WHY IN THE FUCK CAN'T PEOPLE USE PLAIN TEXT.
>>
>>IF ONE PERSON USES CODED TEXT, THEN APPARENTLY EVERYONE WHO
>>RESPONDS TO
>>HIS/HER POST USES CODED TEXT.
>>
>>FUCK IT.
>
>A little more strongly worded than my past pleas, but yes. Plain
>text. I don't know how many scores of times I've asked people to do
>this, but it seems to have no effect. Almost every mailer, except
>maybe those that suck (like AOL's), offer a plain text option. It's
>really not hard to tweak a setting. Nonplain text can double the
>amount of bandwidth required, and can look pretty weird when read by
>older mail software. PLAIN FUCKING TEXT FUCKING PLEASE.
>
>Doug
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