[mdlug] Plain text messages (Was: Best Linux rig for capturing frames from analog video?)

[Michael Mikowski]

Thanks Jonathan.  

I thought this might be Mailman, but I don't recall having this issue with GMail.  The behavior I have seen with Gmail implies it sends a plain text alternative with expanded links.  But that may have simply been a different backend.  In any event, no great loss, and I will certainly remember this in the future :)

Cheers, Mike



________________________________
 From: Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
To: mdlug at mdlug.org 
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 2:10 PM
Subject: [mdlug] Plain text messages (Was: Best Linux rig for capturing frames from analog video?)
 

On Sweetmorn, the 73rd of Discord, 3179 , Michael Mikowski said:
> Remind me again why I use Yahoo mail?
> 
> It appears all my links were stripped from my post.  So here they
> are in-line: 

This probably isn't Yahoo's fault, but the fact that Mailman's default
setting is to convert HTML messages to plain-text messages (or to use
the plain-text part in multi-part messages) by default.

It's probably better to use in-line URLs with plain text anyway --
it's easier for MUAs to display the message and more trustworthy for
people to visit links.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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