Please turn off HTML formatted email.

Subject: Please turn off HTML formatted email.
From: Christopher Murtagh (christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 14:42:04 MDT

 I don't want to sound like a nag on this one, but there has been a lot of
HTML polluted email on this list recently. Pine (my email client of
choice) does handle HTML formatting somewhat, but I still get a bunch of
<PRE>&#88574;</PRE> type chars as well as stuff like:

<PRE><BODY>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=300571720-04092001>This
means, that you don't have the c++ (g++ = GNU C++ compiler) installed or
in the
PATH ($PATH variable) the system is searching to find executable
code.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=300571720-04092001>try to
do:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=300571720-04092001>rpm
--query gcc-c++</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=300571720-04092001></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=300571720-04092001>if it
tells you "... is not installed..." you need to install it from the YDL
CD.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=300571720-04092001></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=300571720-04092001>Best
regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=300571720-04092001>
</PRE>

 which becomes totally unreadable. I like to try to help out people
whenever I can, but I don't have time to sift through HTML tags, and I
simply ignore message with them (note: I added the <PRE></PRE> tags to
help people with HTML infected email clients).

 Thanks!

Cheers,

Chris 

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Christopher Murtagh
Webmaster / Sysadmin
Web Communications Group
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

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