[Lexicog] Unwanted adverts

[John Roberts]

Mike,

I am still using OE. I have the option "Block images and other external 
content in HTML e-mail" checked. This works for most incoming messages and 
as I recall it used to work for Yahoo. It was about 5-6 months ago that 
messages from the Lexicog list changed in format. They had a different font 
and all the images down the righthand side. I didn't change anything in my 
OE, so it must be Yahoo that have changed how they do things. I don't appear 
to have the options in View in OE that you have in Thunderbird.

The other thing I can do to clear the unwanted Yahoo images is to hit the 
reply button to read the message. That removes the images and changes it to 
plain text.

John Roberts


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Maxwell" <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Unwanted adverts


> List moderator wrote:
>> Unfortunately not, John. It's a "feature" of Yahoo Groups.
>>
>>     For a while now messages from the Lexicog list have been coming to
>>     me with a
>>     column of Yahoo adverts down the righthand side. I find this annoying
>>     especially when they cover the message itself. Is there a way of not
>>     having this?
>
> Don't tell Yahoo, but your email client may support blocking or ignoring
> those msgs.
>
> In my case, I use the freeware Thunderbird email client.  In the Options
> dlg, on the Privacy tab there's a check-box for "Block loading of remote
> images in mail messages".  I think the purpose of this is so the sender
> can't find out whether you've read the email, but it also works to turn
> any pictures into simple URLs that you can ignore quite easily, thank you.
>
> If this isn't enough, another setting in TBird, this one under the View
> | Message Body as... menu item, has three choices: HTML, Simple HTML,
> and Plain Text.  The latter even gets rid of (in the display) the URLs
> that are intended to call up the images from Yahoo, although it leaves
> hyperlinks inside text msgs as hyperlinks.
>
> Outlook (not sure about Outlook Express) has a similar setting, to
> display html msgs as plain text.  This means you won't see someone's
> nicely formatted html msg in its nice formatting, but I've never let
> that stop me.  (Outlook also tries to remove extra blank lines, but I'm
> not sure it does that very well.)
>
> Like I say, don't anyone tell Yahoo!
> -- 
> Mike Maxwell
> maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu
> 



 
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