I offered to. If he still insists that he didn't do it, I'll go ahead and send 'em.
If he really ticks me off, I'll send a GIF or PNG of a screen-capture showing what all 1900+ lines of his message looked like on my end.
(No, that'd tie up my own modem too long. I'll just tweak the HTML in such a way that it should display in his browser the way I saw it in my telnet window.)
You've got me worried now. I use nothing but web browser email services, mostly hotmail and yahoo. Have these caused any problems for you? Or did I manage to get the settings right?
a) I don't think you've tried to embed an image in a message.
b) There's a difference between "webmail" (mail read and sent via a web site) and normal mail using a mail client built into a web browser. This person appears to be sending normal mail using Netscape as his mail program.
c) Mail from both your Hotmail account and your Yahoo account arrive in plain text form, usually with reasonable line lengths (a quick check turned up only one exception with long lines, and it may have been a copy/paste thing).
Must step in here for a second. I'm using Netscape Communicator as my primary mail client, because I happen to like it better as a mail client than, say, Outlook or Eudora, both of which I think are piles of code scrapings.
On the other hand, I don't think I've ever been so bonehead stupid as to "accidentally" e-mail images to anyone, and, being fairly familiar with every major version of Communicator since about 3.7, I can't for the life of me figure out how he's trying to get away with arguing that he didn't do it on purpose.
What I think has gone on here is that he's got both HTML mail (including the "background" misfeature) and "embed images" turned on, both of which, incidentally, I turn off. (I also disable a lot of the other things, and make darn sure my lines wrap at a decent width. Then again, I more or less know what I'm doing, I think.)
Gi'm hell, Glenn. You orta tell him how long you've been online, considering that I'm a noob compared to you, and I have been around for a relative while (longer if you count that CompuServe stuff etc. back in 1987 or so)... Then again, I don't imagine that it would make much difference to that sort of mind.
I stripped out the editorial comments and forwarded the most useful bits (I figure there's no point in anybody besides me being snarky to him in the email I send him for now; if he wants the full effect he can read my journal). Let's see if it helps.
And I did mention to him (responding to the patronizing tone) that I've been online since before the Great Renaming. Either he knows what that is and knows it means I'm a net.old.fart (though not as much so as some of my friends), or he doesn't know but ought to get a clue that his not knowing means that it was Before His Time.
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If he really ticks me off, I'll send a GIF or PNG of a screen-capture showing what all 1900+ lines of his message looked like on my end.
(No, that'd tie up my own modem too long. I'll just tweak the HTML in such a way that it should display in his browser the way I saw it in my telnet window.)
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b) There's a difference between "webmail" (mail read and sent via a web site) and normal mail using a mail client built into a web browser. This person appears to be sending normal mail using Netscape as his mail program.
c) Mail from both your Hotmail account and your Yahoo account arrive in plain text form, usually with reasonable line lengths (a quick check turned up only one exception with long lines, and it may have been a copy/paste thing).
Ahem.
On the other hand, I don't think I've ever been so bonehead stupid as to "accidentally" e-mail images to anyone, and, being fairly familiar with every major version of Communicator since about 3.7, I can't for the life of me figure out how he's trying to get away with arguing that he didn't do it on purpose.
What I think has gone on here is that he's got both HTML mail (including the "background" misfeature) and "embed images" turned on, both of which, incidentally, I turn off. (I also disable a lot of the other things, and make darn sure my lines wrap at a decent width. Then again, I more or less know what I'm doing, I think.)
Gi'm hell, Glenn. You orta tell him how long you've been online, considering that I'm a noob compared to you, and I have been around for a relative while (longer if you count that CompuServe stuff etc. back in 1987 or so)... Then again, I don't imagine that it would make much difference to that sort of mind.
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And I did mention to him (responding to the patronizing tone) that I've been online since before the Great Renaming. Either he knows what that is and knows it means I'm a net.old.fart (though not as much so as some of my friends), or he doesn't know but ought to get a clue that his not knowing means that it was Before His Time.