ANST - Wading through reams of HTML

Thu Jan 20 22:20:42 PST 2000

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:owner-ansteorra at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of 
> gunnora at realtime.net
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 19:26
> To: Ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> Subject: ANST - Wading through reams of HTML
> 
> Is there any way to filter the lists such that they would 
> automatically delete
> any portion of a post that began with <HTML> and ended with 
> </HTML> ?? 

so you would advocate censorship for the convenience of some?  a
better solution would be to update your email client to something
that can handle the formats that are the norm on the *modern*
internet and not the scadian "perfect world" subset.  you will have
far better luck learning to live in the world rather than trying to
hold them to your personal standards (it's called give-and-take).

> Seems like that would get rid of the gratuitous ugly HTML 
> encoding provided for us by the folks who aren't sure how to turn
> OFF styles  and HTML in their email program.

what is "gratuitous" to some is now standard to others ... i live in
a html / rtf primary world and find plain-text ugly and limiting. 
depends on your POV eh?

for those usure about your formatting, the help file included in your
client should explain this ... else you can ask those of us versed in
multiple clients, or check into the newsgroups related to your
particular client.

> For folks on the list who don't know what I'm talking about, 
> when someone sends those styles or HTML-enabled emails, what 
> a lot of us see is that message, followed by reams of coded 
> stuff duplicating the message with HTML codes included.

easiest solution ... update your client and spend a bit of time
learning the curent feature and control set.  modern e-tools mature
and improve, and they also become obsolete rather quickly.

such is the way of the modern world

'wolf

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