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Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?)

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2013-12-11 18:31 -0700
Subject Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?)
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> I found a "remove formatting" button in gmail's composer, and used it
>> on this message. Does this message look like plain text?
>
> Still sent with an HTML part, so some other change must be needed to
> disable that.

Check the default formatting in the settings, or perhaps instead of
"no signature" there is an empty signature selected that is adding
formatting?

>> There isn't a lot of e-mail programs that don't do HTML anymore.
>
> Many of the better mail clients allow the user to explicitly stop
> rendering HTML (but still have it available, as Steven points out).

Unfortunately, Gmail has recently moved away from the explicit toggle
and now only has that "Remove formatting" command, which will remove
any existing formatting from the draft but won't necessarily prevent
it from accidentally slipping back in.

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Re: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 15:07 -0800
  Re: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-11 23:24 +0000
    Re: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 15:39 -0800
    Re: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-11 20:01 -0500
    Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-12-12 12:12 +1100
      Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?) rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 19:23 -0800
        Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 15:27 +1100
        Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-12 11:05 +0000
          Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?) Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2013-12-12 15:36 +0200
    Re: Disable HTML in forum messages (was: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 18:31 -0700
    Re: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 18:37 -0700
    Re: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 19:52 -0800
    Re: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 23:22 -0700
    Re: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-12-12 08:56 -0500

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