[GRLUG] Linux desktop marketshare

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:25:58PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:13 -0500, john-thomas richards wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:55:00PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> > > On Dec 12, 2007 11:18 AM, Chase Bolen <chase.bolen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > [snip broken text]
> > 
> > What was broken?  I was able to read his message in mutt via ssh just
> > fine.
> > 
> > > Can we please stop defanging HTML emails?  Is there *anyone* on this
> > > list whose client doesn't support multi-part emails?  Any text-mode
> > > Linux client maintained within the last five to ten years should work.
> > 
> > I am not sure what 'defanging' means in this context (though I will
> > google), but I am quite curious what mail clients are most common on
> > this list.  Based on how text is quoted in some messages there are more
> > Outlook users here than one would expect on a LUG list.
> 
> Look at the message source. You'll see "DEFANGED_div" and other such
> stuff.

Mutt shows that as an attachment (one of three or four in that email).
I am not sure who the "we" is in "can *we* stop defanging HTML emails".
Is that at the mail server level or is my (your/our) mail client doing
this?

> > BTW, are not all Linux mail clients text-based and GUI mail clients
> > really just Windows apps ported?  ;-)
> 
> Well, I use Evolution and it plays just find. I guess its the only one
> that can. And No Evolution wasn't ported from Windows.

I know.  Sorry.  The joke failed, hence the wink.  :-(
-- 
john-thomas
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