WHY WE EDIT
PREFERENCES ON EMAIL TO SEND IN SIMPLE TEXT, NOT
FORMATTED HTM (written in 1999)
ARE YOU
SHOOTING JAMS or BLANKS? I mean, are you sending out
superb, important information, only it's not visible
to your Recipient's Browser? Or maybe it JAMS their
browser so they have to close it down, go into DOS
and erase your email line by line? Or say they want
to cut and paste
text from your article but it’s as impenetrable as a
glass window laid over The Magna Carta? That’s MIME
FORMAT. See: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question334.htm An invention of the Bill Gates
People. And I use his "NOTEPAD" a text editor.
But you can google up a text editor and download
one. (BEST is FOUND INSIDE ZTREE a program you
want to download! A FILE MANAGER from Heaven.)
I
have many activists who send me political articles,
entire web pages and I cannot read them. They jam
the browser, or cannot be saved as htm. (This was
1999 and it's not prevalent these days to get
jammed.) It USED to be an activist poster’s
nightmare. Then, there are spammers who send me two
page ads SO MASSIVELY FORMATTED that They totally
JAM the browser. I have to boot out of the browser,
go into DOS text, go thru the TREE, find netscape/email
and erase their damn email line by line from inbox.
I
wouldn’t do that to anyone, knowingly. Yet I’m never
sure what the cause of ‘lack of translation’ is. Is
it MIME FORMAT? Is it my BROWSER, being NETSCAPE 4.5
is from the mid 90‘s and is defunct? A ghost ship in
high tech seas? Well, I prefer to call it
‘sensitive.’ Antiqueish. But the best EMAIL CLIENT
in the world for lists, so I keep it. (Until
MILLENIUM. Now I use WIN 10 and a CHROME BROWSER but
this article is for antiques using older machines.)
I
keep on sending articles out, too. My own and
others’. I pride myself that all my articles are
undercoded and jam nobody’s browser. And when I see
an article online and forward it to people on my
list, I note that when I receive MY copy, I can read
it, no jams. But then I use an old fashioned, low
tech browser so I can send files and have anybody
read them. Even ten page articles with colored
formatting and graphics.
Ferinstance,
SAVE this file as “EDIT PREFERENCES” and see if you
can save it. As a researcher, you want to be able to
save any article and be able to enter it later as an
HTM file (for easy posting on your website,)
although posting a live link or its URL also is
good. But make an HTM COPY of THIS info and save as
a file. Next time PALS send you big important
articles only it’s illegible or has no live links in
it, as they captured it and sent it thru a browser
that sends HTM files as MIME format. Or they’re
drawn on some remote server which won’t load.. Say:
"Dear PALLIE, What you were sending me just now is
not simple text with live links. It
isn't the normal, plain ole text that I am usually
sending you or an htm attachment file as I'm sending
you this, right now so that every URL in it is
ALIVE. http://www.masterjules.net/ALIVE!
You've
chosen to have your browser send an html page that's
blank as it's in some MIME kind of BILL GATES WORLD.
For a webpage
that
talks about configuring email clients to use plain
ascii text i.e. how to configure email clients to
use ascii text and avoid MIME go to the NO-MIME AT
ALL EXPERT by googling that phrase.
A
MAIL CLIENT is that browser you’re using. IT has an
area where you can EDIT preferences, OR TOOLS. For
some of us, MSN emails are frequently blank. My
point is -- know what you’re sending to the rest of
world. ANY Microsoft BROWSER is frequently blank to
us unless you get the MIME OUT OF IT.
If I right click on your
blank letter, I will get a menu of choices, FORWARD
INLINE or VIEW SOURCE then I can VIEW SOURCE CODE SO
I SEE <B>font helvetica, blah blah <P>
and a spattering of =20s a total illegible mess!
Your MSN server or browser has been left to its own
whim to perpetually shoot html EMAILS in MIME so
it's getting its skirt caught in all our browsers
and software which run on text. PLAIN text is
always easy to read. And all links in plain text
become live
links, when they arrive at your chum's browser
so that’s good.
It
does not bother me that you continue to send
illegible or blank e-mails, one, two, or three
times. It isn't a bother as I right click on it with
mouse and see the coding (VIEW INLINE button).
Though it's <20>FUNNY LOOKING =<P> I can
sort of read it. It's just that no one else will
read it. IF YOU ARE SAYING ANYTHING important, (I
was never able to read it for more than two seconds
without getting vexed ) people are missing it.
LOSE
the
MSN BROWSER, lose the MSN SERVER. OR edit your preferences
to get rid of their wacky settings. They are useless
if you want to be read by everyone. Gates designed a
world that was incompatible with the rest of us so
that we'd all switch to him. HA! AS IF!
I
know you think I SHOULD have tried harder to read
your email but may I remind you, it came totally
BLANK. Only cuz I know about right clicking could I
see its source code. Don't think right clicking and
reading code bothers me for a moment. It's just that
I cannot read English when it's mixed with code and
ergo don't really get the gist of the file you sent.
That is what I miss.
So
let's have a learning opportunity for surfers
teaching each other now. Lose the BILL GATES mime
code software. Lose it. I don't care who your server
is, get a browser like MOZILLA FIREFOX (FREE
ONLINE), Opera (free,) or NETSCAPE the latest
version 8 is free but I prefer version 4.7 a golden
oldie, though java jams it, and I have to reboot the
whole pc when that occurs or stay away from fawncy
websites. Not a problem USE FIREFOX to surf to CNN
(which jams older browsers,) I use 4.7 for my email
as no better design exists! No better mail
client!
So
are we agreed, Get the browser downloading it online
in a few minutes for free. It allows you to edit
your preferences so you can send simple text, no
html. I write pals who send me garbled messages or
who send blank screens thinking it's a huge file –I
WRITE THEM A LITTLE POME!
“WHEN you find
super news online
and think it's kind to share it
Do us all a favor sweetie,
At first could you PREPARE IT?
You turn it into
text my dear.
by mailing it to yourself.
then do control c and capture it,
Control V drops it in blank email! Just Like a magic
elf!
You can't always send all the
codes
you find online each day
but text will go most anywhere.
there, I've had my SAY!
NOW,
you
can ALSO try to edit your preferences to send text,
not HTML. Then test it out on me, see
if I can see something. But, first, I will tell you
what worked for ME. And other folks who were
previously sending blanks and didn't know it.
I got tekkies online who kindly came to my house
..some came to me online but all taught me the
solution so I have a glimmer here.
A
decent browser has a place where you "edit your
preferences" CLICK EDIT button, then click
PREFERENCES BUTTON. THEN CLICK on EMAIL and you will
easily get rid of what you are doing. SENDING
EMAIL IN HTML CODING. To send messages in
simple text will solve your problem of sending off
blanks. If your browser will not let you send in
plain text, then DOWNLOAD NETSCAPE as a browser
which has this feature. GOOGLE Search for the word,
'netscape' and a + plus sign, then write in 4.7 and
GOOGLE will find sites where it's offered and you
can 'download.'
YOU
CAN
Google Search for "FREE BROWSER" or DOWNLOAD FREE
BROWSER or DOWNLOAD NETSCAPE, those keywords, get
yourself a neat copy of netscape vers 4.7 free
online.I suggest getting old version 4.7 not a newer
one. If you can't imagine yourself downloading
freebie software, ask a tekkie pal to help
you. It should make for a nice dinner together. I
had to make MANY a savory home cooked meal before a
tekkie pal would bother to come over and show me
anything, and I learned to offer a great meal in
lurid descriptions, rare roast beef, homemade
sour cherry pie, red Merlot wine, columbian
coffee....to get them behind a steering
wheel salivating their way to my house!
THEN,
when
tekkies showed me stuff, I got it! I'm dumb as a
ditch carp but so are these machines really. And the
tekkies know how to make it look easy. WELL, it WAS
easy. Just somebody has to show you. While he's
there, get THE BOOKMARK thing sorted out, then this
EMAIL matter so you're sending text, not html which
you are sending. GET YOUR ADDRESS BOOK lesson. YOUR
BOOKMARKS SORTING and EDITING that is two lessons,
so you can find web research and save it in a small
txt file. Then the address book editing, then how to
use MICROSOFT WORD or OFFICE to create html files
that you can send as an attachment.
Then
how
to find research online. Then 'saving that research
as txt or saving as html THEN EDITING what you save.
Then sending it on so that the info gets there and
isn't blank as today it was.
You
do
that in microsoft WORD (usually found in OFFICE.) Do
you have office l997? Much better than office 2000.
Tell me what you have, browser, software, etc. Have
you ever edited your preferences on the browser? We
two speakin' the same language?
If
your browser doesn't let you edit preferences (so
your pals can test it out with you, see if they can
read a plain text....) then, download NETSCAPE
version 4.7 which is still found online for free, I
just did a google search on places where it's
offered.
http://wp.netscape.com/download/archive/client_archive47x.html
read
that page and download the 4.78 there. The pre NSA
versions, subsequent ones are easy for the netspies
to get into. This one isn't.
This
older
VERSION NETSCAPE I use, 4.5 or vers 4.7, as I said
has this one problem,one that rarely bothers me. You
can't surf the web with it. You have to have an ALT
BROWSER on hand, I have Mozilla Firefox. If you
abort A JAVA screen, meaning while some website is
giving you a java screen, you freeze a few minor
functions in your EMAIL. No problem. Just get
offline, reboot your PC. And do not go back to that
website with java. Better, don't surf with NETSCAPE.
It has best EMAIL client. Best HTM COMPOSER, but for
surfing, Use Mozilla Firefox, or use I.E. the one
that comes with all PC’s (download newest version
free,) or use SLIMBROWSER to go there. One in a
dozen spam emails will have a popup with java, those
do the same thing freeze a function, like you can no
longer OPEN an EMAIL. Just close, reboot. The freeze
is gone.
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