[Lexicog] Unwanted adverts

[Mike Maxwell]

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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