Re: Attachments and HTML (was Re: XP & malware)

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks for that clarification, Carl.

I'm still hoping that you or another Nota Bene user has a
response to my query about how good the built-in NB conversion
facility may be. (Unless I'm mistaken that there *is* one.)
I'm not on the NB list, as yet.


 Jordan


--- On Thu, 5/24/12, Carl Distefano  wrote:

> Reply to note from J R FOX 
> Thu, 24 May 2012
> 12:55:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Attachments are permitted on the XyWrite list; there is a
> 5MB limit on
> message size (the smaller, the better, needless to say).
> Note that
> attached files are not preserved in the Freelists.org
> Web-based
> archive (links to the attachments appear below the archived
> message,
> but they go dead), but attached files are preserved, and
> images are
> visible, on the XySearch archive (a very nice feature).
> Compare these
> two versions of the same archived message from 10 November
> 2011:
>
> http://www.freelists.org/post/xywrite/running-Xy-on-a-Mac,18
> (dead "PNG image" links)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/xysearch/2011/msg00544.htm
> (attached images displayed)
>
> > ... just as we are not supposed to post here using
> > HTML formatting, with fonts, sizes of print and the
> like.
>
> I've given up reminding people about this -- and there are
> chronic
> violators -- but, yes, plain text is still the gold
> standard. I, for
> one, read my list messages in XyWrite, and HTML requires an
> extra
> step, whether stripping out the tags, or viewing the message
> in a
> browser, or just slogging through the message, tags and all.
> It's a
> pain. (We've enabled a list option to "humanize" HTML
> attachments,
> i.e., convert them to plain text, but it has no effect on
> inline
> HTML.)
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>