[Lexicog] Unwanted adverts

[Wayne Leman]

John, I use OE also but I have never had any problem with Lexicog message contents getting covered by the Yahoo adverts. In fact my eyes hardly notice that there is anything other than message contents. Maybe I have a built-in advert filter!

:-)

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
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  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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