Well there you go then. Have at my good fellow and go raise bloody hell, because the only fruit this discussion is bearing is some darn good comedy. Email redhat and see about having that change made and end the madness, and further more I am neither for or against html email. Its just email (chuckle) . I deal fine
Blair PS : SHEESH ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: Re: Here is some math...LOL > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Blair MacDonald wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I shall be brief because I dont want to be insensitive to your bandwidth > > issues. As a result of a 4 KB message posted in html and my 5 KB reply > > asking why he should not post in html there was a grand total of about > > 77 KB of complaints whos main issue is seems to be bandwidth > > conservation. Thats 19.25 times the size of the initial message in html. > > Does anyone see the humor here . > > no. > > and, more to the point, this issue is not going away any time soon. > as more users come to linux, many of them will be joining the red hat > mailing lists and bringing their bad habits with them, including the > monstrosity that is HTML e-mail. > > in my opinion, anyone who posts to one of these lists in HTML should > be notified -- immediately and in no uncertain terms -- that that's > an unacceptable practice. > > this doesn't need to take up any major mailing list bandwidth. perhaps, > instead, emailing the culprit personally with a URL reference to an > article on netiquette would suffice. > > personally, i'd love to see red hat itself take a position on this, > and simply reject any postings that are clearly HTML-based, with an > automatic reply to the sender as to why. what was it kennedy said? > something about the price being "eternal vigilance", wasn't it? > it's kind of like copyright. if you don't protect it *continuously*, > you lose it. and i think the red hat mailing lists should be protected > as text-only forums, with attachments if you really need them. > > rday > > p.s. please don't respond to this note with any defenses of HTML > e-mail. it's bad, and you're wrong. deal with it. > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
