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Guerri Stevens
June 5th, 2006, 07:32 PM
I am set up to receive individual messages from the group. In the bunch
I received and read when I got my Email tonight, I noticed that
Thunderbird produced the message "To protect your privacy, Thunderbird
has blocked remote images in this message". This appeared in messages
from Toni, Wayne, and Dodi, but interestingly, not in *all* messages
from them. In addition, those messages were in a font other than the
usual Courier (text only), probably Times Roman or something similar.

Clicking on "Show Images" didn't seem to bring up anything else.

I also noticed that the format of the material that the group adds at
the end of each message had a different format in those particular
messages, with graphic lines and bullets.

This may be a function of the group settings for those individuals but
if that were true, I'd expect all the messages from them to be the same.
It will be interesting to see how this message of mine shows up.

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Guerri



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Daniel B. Widdis
June 6th, 2006, 12:52 AM
I tried to reply to Dodi's message, and found the "text" portion of her
message was being treated like an image in Gmail's web client. I don't have
time to figure out exactly what is going on but one of the email links
claims "Yahoo mail has changed" so I gather it's something they're doing to
"improve" our service.

Uh huh.

On 6/6/06, Guerri Stevens <guerri (AT) tapcis (DOT) com> wrote:
>
> I am set up to receive individual messages from the group. In the bunch
> I received and read when I got my Email tonight, I noticed that
> Thunderbird produced the message "To protect your privacy, Thunderbird
> has blocked remote images in this message".
>


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Dan Widdis


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davidh
June 6th, 2006, 07:06 AM
I saw on one of the Yahoo pages that I usually visit (mail or groups, I forget which) that Yahoo has indeed enhanced yahoogroups mail. Since I read the yahoo groups to which I belong in the web view, I have not actually seen how the format(s) of group mail have changed.

It may be the case that Thunderbird says that it is not going to display images WHENEVER it renders a HTML message regardless of whether it actually contains images or not. Perhaps if the message actually contains some image then TB may show a default "placeholder" icon instead of the image, so that you would be thus informed whether there would be any reason to click "display images" or not.

BTW, I noticed that if I compose a (HTML) message with a graphical smiley in web view of my yahoo mail and then send it to myself, the graphic for the smiley is NOT contained in the message. Instead it's a link to an image of the smiley on the Yahoo server. If, for example, I had sent such a message to your Thunderbird email, then perhaps the smiley would appear as a little "image document placeholder default icon", until you clicked show images.

David H

Judy Madnick
June 6th, 2006, 08:21 AM
Because of the new graphical "stuff," it's more difficult to quote from a message that you receive via email. OTOH, you can click on the link that allows you to reply on the website. I think I'll return to the traditional format. I guess there are advantages and disadvantages to both formats . . .

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY


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davidh
June 6th, 2006, 09:05 AM
Here's the link to the Yahoo page explaining the changes to Yahoo Groups emails:

http://groups.yahoo.com/local/newemail.html