andrew <nospam@andrew.invalidwrites:
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Had a quick look at your header:
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User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4
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and I was a little curious as to how many gnus users (!!) there are
out there? Is there a NG that is frequented, as slrn users congregate
at news.software.readers?
I'm not sure. I haven't looked for a place to congregate with other
users. I can tell you that there are plenty of people out there who
still read mail in emacs.
To tie this back in to the topic of HTML, there's one gotcha to watch
for if you want to accommodate people who don't take HTML email. The
canonical "right solution" is to send a multipart/alternative message
with a text/plain part in addition to the text/html part. This works
fine for the original message. The gotcha happens when someone using
Outlook (and likely other HTML-capable mail user agents) forwards the
message. The text/plain part ends up discarded, and the work you put
into making it nice is lost. I found this problem making class notes
for my college alumni class. The class secretary was using ourdoings
to prepare photo-illustrated updates. She subscribed her own address
since that was easy, then forwarded the ourdoings message to the rest
of the class. It didn't work well for text-based mail, including the
gnus reader I use. So we had to put the class mailing list itself on
the subscription list directly. That caused incorrect unsubscription
instructions to be included, before the correct ones that the mailing
list always appends. But I will have that problem corrected shortly.
Sorry if the above is worded awkwardly. My lines started lining up and
I couldn't stop. (You won't see this unless you view my message in a
fixed-width font.)
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http://ourdoings.com/
Amazingly simple photo sharing
