HTML messages to mailing lists. Problem upgrading ncurses

[Steven Kurylo]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Stroller
<stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 24 Jul 2008, at 01:09, Dale Schumacher wrote:
>>
>>> Also, could you possibly post to the list in plain text, not HTML?
>>
>> Sure, I could.  I thought it would be more clear to post the
>> transcript in fixed font.  Doesn't it come through as multi-part-
>> alternative anyway, so you should have a plain-text version too?
>> It seems the richer markup is often useful.
>
>
> The fixed-width font you chose ("courier new,monospace"?) is
> honoured, but comes up as greyish on my mail client (Apple's Mail)
> and is difficult to read.

So it sounds the problem is with your client.  Tell your client,
assuming its a reasonable client, to only show plain text and not the
HTML.

The only argument to skip html is disk space/bandwidth which is rarely
an issue these days.