HTML email

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Can anyone else verify this? Are my messages actually distorted on the other
end?

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---------- Forwarded Message ----------

Subject: HTML email
Date: Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:30 pm
From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: trans. <transami@runbox.com> (T. Onoma)

Hi Tom,

Can you please do me a favour? Check to see whether your email client
is sending HTML email, and if possible, change it to text, at least
for ruby-talk posts?

Posts to ruby-talk from you appear in smaller writing than those from
everybody else, and are difficult for me to read. I presume it's
because they're sending text and you're sending HTML.

Thanks,
Gavin

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They've always looked fine to me (in pine & in evolution).

    -- Markus

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On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 10:18, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

Can anyone else verify this? Are my messages actually distorted on the other
end?

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

Subject: HTML email
Date: Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:30 pm
From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: trans. <transami@runbox.com> (T. Onoma)

Hi Tom,

Can you please do me a favour? Check to see whether your email client
is sending HTML email, and if possible, change it to text, at least
for ruby-talk posts?

Posts to ruby-talk from you appear in smaller writing than those from
everybody else, and are difficult for me to read. I presume it's
because they're sending text and you're sending HTML.

Thanks,
Gavin

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Can anyone else verify this? Are my messages actually distorted on
the other

No HTML, but perhaps it's the fact that your encoding seems to be
UTF-8 is what makes his client swap font?

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On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:18:58AM +0900, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

end?

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

Subject: HTML email
Date: Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:30 pm
From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: trans. <transami@runbox.com> (T. Onoma)

Hi Tom,

Can you please do me a favour? Check to see whether your email client
is sending HTML email, and if possible, change it to text, at least
for ruby-talk posts?

Posts to ruby-talk from you appear in smaller writing than those from
everybody else, and are difficult for me to read. I presume it's
because they're sending text and you're sending HTML.

Thanks,
Gavin

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--
Thomas
beast@system-tnt.dk

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trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

Can anyone else verify this? Are my messages actually distorted on the other end?

Subject: HTML email
Date: Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:30 pm
From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: trans. <transami@runbox.com> (T. Onoma)

Hi Tom,

Can you please do me a favour? Check to see whether your email client
is sending HTML email, and if possible, change it to text, at least
for ruby-talk posts?

Posts to ruby-talk from you appear in smaller writing than those from
everybody else, and are difficult for me to read. I presume it's
because they're sending text and you're sending HTML.

Thanks,
Gavin

Well, viewing the message source shows that they are indeed plain text. But I see the same thing Gavin described: the text of your messages is consistently smaller than the text of other messages.

The only thing I can think of is that you've got the following headers set:

   Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
   Content-disposition: inline

Other messages I checked didn't set the charset, and lacked the Content-disposition header.

Could it be that (in my case) Thunderbird is interpreting those headers and displaying with a smaller font size somehow?

- Jamis

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["trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com>, 2004-10-06 19.18 CEST]

Can anyone else verify this? Are my messages actually distorted on the other
end?

It's a mozilla bug.