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I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
I would like to do this
without using HTML. I use alpine to send and receive email : I tried adding the
ASCII codes that produce colored text in a X terminal, for example the command
echo -e "This is a test of \e[3;91m italic red \e[0m ", but they are ignored in
an e-mail message body.
Is there some way of producing colored text without using HTML ?
I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue. I would like to do this
without using HTML. I use alpine to send and receive email : I tried adding the
ASCII codes that produce colored text in a X terminal, for example the command
echo -e "This is a test of \e[3;91m italic red \e[0m ", but they are ignored in
an e-mail message body.
Is there some way of producing colored text without using HTML ?
Roger Price (HE12025-04-17):
I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to
that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
That is idiotic and harmful. Tell you will comply only if there is a compelling justification. (There is not.)
I would like to do this without using HTML. I use alpine to send
and receive email : I tried adding the ASCII codes that produce
colored text in a X terminal, for example the command echo -e "This
is a test of \e[3;91m italic red \e[0m ", but they are ignored in
an e-mail message body.
Is there some way of producing colored text without using HTML ?
Not possible.
Now it depends on how vengeful you are: you might end up with RTF
(out of categoty 3), or you might explain to your president that,
when the mails are all blue, people with a monochrome monitor will
be incapable to read them (perhaps they believe you).
tomas@tuxteam.de (HE12025-04-17):
Now it depends on how vengeful you are: you might end up with RTF
(out of categoty 3), or you might explain to your president that,
when the mails are all blue, people with a monochrome monitor will
be incapable to read them (perhaps they believe you).
Monochrome is rather stretching it in this day and age. Better evoke the situation of people with sight disabilities, because it is true that
they might have special needs, including about color, to be able to read something.
I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
https://useplaintext.email/
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Nicolas George wrote:
Roger Price (HE12025-04-17):
I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I
write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
That is idiotic and harmful.
I agree with you completely.
Tell you will comply only if there is a compelling justification. (There is
not.)
Long ago he was a senior manager in a major IT manufacturer known for its color.
I've known him for many years. I don't fancy the job of telling him how stupid
he is. IT also involves human problems.
Roger Price (HE12025-04-17):
I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
That is idiotic and harmful.
Tell you will comply only if there is a compelling justification. (There is not.)
Long ago he was a senior manager in a major IT manufacturer known for its color.
I've known him for many years. I don't fancy the job of telling him how stupid
he is. IT also involves human problems.
... when he tries to tell you how to do it
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:55:31PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
Long ago he was a senior manager in a major IT manufacturer known
for its color. I've known him for many years. I don't fancy the
job of telling him how stupid he is. IT also involves human
problems.
In that case just tell him that you have tried and cannot work out
how to do it. He will think that you are stupid but if/when he tries
to tell you how to do it and realises that it is not that simple, a
penny might drop.
tomas@tuxteam.de (HE12025-04-17):
Now it depends on how vengeful you are: you might end up with RTF
(out of categoty 3), or you might explain to your president that,
when the mails are all blue, people with a monochrome monitor will
be incapable to read them (perhaps they believe you).
Monochrome is rather stretching it in this day and age. Better evoke the situation of people with sight disabilities, because it is true that
they might have special needs, including about color, to be able to read something.
Regards,
I read/write email using mutt in a mate terminal. It is black & white. If I ssh
in from my laptop it is yellow & black (I cannot remember why I set it up like
that).
Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". Problem solved. Roger
I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue. I would like to do this without using HTML. I use alpine to send and receive email : I tried adding the
ASCII codes that produce colored text in a X terminal, for example the command
echo -e "This is a test of \e[3;91m italic red \e[0m ", but they are ignored in
an e-mail message body.
Is there some way of producing colored text without using HTML ?
Roger
https://useplaintext.email/
On 4/17/25 5:37 AM, Roger Price wrote:
I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
Have you ever considered the possibility that you are being hazed?
I wondered, but his manner and the way he spoke about his visual difficulty suggested that he wanted me to be the first to write in blue, and then others would follow. Roger
On 17.04.2025 19:06, Roger Price wrote:
Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!". Problem solved. Roger
I'd use software called GIMP. &shrug;
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
Have you ever considered the possibility that you are being hazed?
I wondered, but his manner and the way he spoke about his visual difficulty suggested that he wanted me to be the first to write in blue, and then others would follow. Roger
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 06:42:57PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
... he wanted me to be the first to write in blue, and then others
would follow.
Ah, at last the reason. *He* has a personal problem and expects the rest of the
world to change to make his life easier.
The real solution to this is to fix his MUA to address his visual difficulty.
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
On 17.04.2025 19:06, Roger Price wrote:
Very easy for him - he's a manager - he will say "Use software!".
Problem solved. Roger
I'd use software called GIMP. &shrug;
Your 1.png is neat. The mailing list is run by framalistes.org .
They accept almost anything and forcibly HTMLize it. Roger
Alain D D Williams wrote:
I read/write email using mutt in a mate terminal. It is black & white. If I ssh
in from my laptop it is yellow & black (I cannot remember why I set it up like
that).
For about a decade, I color-coded the default text in my
terminals to indicate where I was SSHd in. (I tended to have a
dozen terminal windows open at once.)
These days I color-code the bash prompt, instead.
Looking at https://framalistes.org/sympa/arc/ospo.onramp/2025-03/msg00001.html as
an example, it appears your text may become blue if you precede your
message with <a name="00000" href="msg00000.html"> and follow it with
The mailing list is run by framalistes.org . They accept
almost anything and forcibly HTMLize it. Roger
Same here: coloured bash prompt, with reverse video for root.
On 4/17/25 9:52 AM, Roger Price wrote:
The mailing list is run by framalistes.org . They accept
almost anything and forcibly HTMLize it. Roger
That's ass-backwards.
Then again, looking at their site, so is everything
else they do, including their TOU.
Looking at https://framalistes.org/sympa/arc/ospo.onramp/2025-03/msg00001.html
as an example, it appears your text may become blue if you precede
your message with <a name="00000" href="msg00000.html"> and follow
it with </a>
Yeah, making it a link might render it blue.
If you do that, I think it'd be worthwhile to make it a valid link
that points to a page explaining how to configure the MUA's text
color.
Stefan
Since the sender has no knowledge of what MUA (or browser) any receiver
is using there's no way to know how to configure whatever they're using.
Since the sender has no knowledge of what MUA (or browser) any receiver
is using there's no way to know how to configure whatever they're using.
... and the OP has presumably received an email from that guy so they
can check the headers to find the MUA that the idiot is using,
I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue.
Some people will try it on though, like saying your posts have to wrap
at 72 characters or their email client can't cope.
Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> writes:
Some people will try it on though, like saying your posts have to wrap
at 72 characters or their email client can't cope.
On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 12:10, Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> wrote:
Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> writes:
Some people will try it on though, like saying your posts have to wrap
at 72 characters or their email client can't cope.
Is that because they are using systems which use punched cards?
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