-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 06 October 2002 07:19 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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. I agree, the practice of sending html mail to these lists is unacceptable and indefensible. But that isn't going to make it stop happening. I just send all HTML mail to the bit bucket. It doesn't do anything to reduce the bandwidth usage, but it does help keep my blood pressure down. $ grep -B1 -A1 html .procmailrc :0: * ^Content-Type: text/html /dev/null > 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. Exactly! - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9oO5tn/07WoAb/SsRAnRYAKC2BO/TTYztRUpTEc2xs4JwZqLjWgCgmmiP 7aGOd4hElI6wePoS5Uvt6e4= =7e41 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
