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re: Formatted email runs off the edges of the screen
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 10:39 am
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Posted by anu (240 messages posted)


OUCH!! I am one of those idiots. I always send and receive e-mails in HTML but so 
far no complaints yet from the other idiots.






On Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 7:06 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>|I receive some messages that are too wide for my screen
>|How do I reduce the width of them so that I don't have to [scroll] right,
>|then down, then back up...
>| Jim Shaffer
>
>1) Tell the idiots who send you HTML-formatted email to STOP IT.
>It's stupid (email messages are NOT Web pages) and it's dangerous to you.
>cache
>of
http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
>+security-issues+crashes-and-compatibility-problems+privacy

>If they won't discontinue this, stop accepting email from those parties.
>
>2) Even if you are going to ignore the BEST advice on this (my previous point),
>turn off HTML in your email client.
>
>3) If you are going to ignore the best and second-best advice,
>then tell these idiots to learn how to properly format HTML
>before they send more of this crap to you.
>
>4) Accept responsibility for the errors of others;
>buy a 21" monitor and adjust it for the resolution you need.



Written in response to:
Formatted email runs off the edges of the screen (gewg_: Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 7:06 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Formatted email runs off the edges of the screen (Ed: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 3:56 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-downsizing emails (Jim Shaffer: Sun, May 20, 2007, 11:47 am)
-Formatted email runs off the edges of the screen (gewg_: Sun, May 20, 2007, 7:06 pm)
-re: Formatted email runs off the edges of the screen (anu: Tue, May 22, 2007, 10:39 am)
*re: Formatted email runs off the edges of the screen (Ed: Tue, May 22, 2007, 3:56 pm)
-re: downsizing emails (Jim Shaffer: Thu, May 24, 2007, 6:29 pm)
*Formatted pages are too wide for *MY* screen (gewg_: Thu, May 24, 2007, 8:40 pm)
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