Re: [Lynx-dev] rawstory and lynxFwd: The two words the GOP wants you to forget (fwd)

[Jude DaShiell]

Hi Karen,

I only tried accessing content with original messages and those had lots 
more clutter in them based on their normal 2mb+ sizes.  It could be what 
needs to be done with these messages is to forward them from my gmail 
account to my panix account and then try reading them.

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> Jude,
> I am not sure what is happening for you, but I could access links in your 
> example, being taken to the articles.
> My setup is at shellworld, I am using pine to read these emails, and Lynx is 
> the browser that runs when I choose a link.
> Are you accessing gmail in basic html?
> To be sure, there is a grand deal of spoken clutter,  but based on my own 
> test I am wondering if the confusion lies with your gmail display instead?
> Lynx had no trouble taking me to articles,  the ones I tried at least.
> Kare
>
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> >  I tried using alpine connected to lynx to read this kind of webmail and
> >  couldn't locate any urls in the webmail.  I asked on this list if there
> >  was anything that had been done to the formating of the webmail to make
> >  this happen and if there was anything that could be done about it to make
> >  this accessible to alpine using lynx as its web browser.  That's what this
> >  has to do with lynx.
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, David Woolley wrote:
> >
> > >   On 14/03/2021 17:54, Travis Siegel wrote:
> > >
> > > >    What does this have to do with lynx?
> > >
> > >   I believe the OP is using a text only, non-web aware, email client, with
> > >   Lynx used to handle HTML messages, and thinks that this is HTML, and is
> > >   wondering why Lynx is ignoring all the links.
> > >
> > >   His last message is forwarding an example of email for which this setup
> > >   is
> > >   failing.
> > >
> > >   The problem is that the message isn't HTML.  It's a plain text fallback,
> > >   intended for web aware email clients where the user doesn't want to
> > >   receive HTML email. (Moreover, the links are, correctly, placed in angle
> > >   brackets, which, if forced to treat it as HTML, Lynx will ignore, as
> > >   they
> > >   contain unknown tags.
> > >
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