Ok,
Can we agree to differ and quit with the topic, which whilst having
merits, seems blatently unresolvable.
At the moment this thread has turned into an annoyance at best and is
clogging up my reading of the actual real reasons for this mailing list
>From now on I am going to configure Procma
On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:50 pm, Blair MacDonald's voice rose above
the ones in my head and declared:
> 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 h
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 15:41, Dallam Wych wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:08:34PM -0400, Keith Winston wrote:
>
> > As an interesting sidebar, I am on half a dozen mailing lists, including
> > suse, slackware, debian, CUPS, etc. On all other lists combined, I get
> > maybe 1 or 2 HTML e-mails
Folks,
just one comment on why some of us think HTML mail is obnoxious: before
reading this, esp. if you're getting the digest, try turning off "enable html
for mail and news", and then read this list.
Then let us know your opinion.
mark "Lord, would the gift 'E gie us, to see oursel
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:08:34PM -0400, Keith Winston wrote:
> As an interesting sidebar, I am on half a dozen mailing lists, including
> suse, slackware, debian, CUPS, etc. On all other lists combined, I get
> maybe 1 or 2 HTML e-mails a month (out of about 6000). On this list, I
> get over
I for one see a great deal of humor in it. :)
Sometimes I wonder if it's truly an issue of the precious bandwidth (which
becomes cheaper with each passing month) or the fact that HTML mail seems to
be most prevalent among e-mail clients like Outlook, which is a product of
that evil empire in th
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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 wi
(chuckle) . I deal fine
Blair
PS : SHEESH ;)
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> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Blair MacDonald wrote:
&g
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 19:19, 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-m
Actually my problem with html email isn't the bandwidth, Its that the
text is always too darn small to read. I have my fonts set perfectly for
me and when someone slips in an html email I ignore it rather strain
eyes trying to read it.
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 19:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Su
> automatic reply to the sender as to why. what was it kennedy said?
> something about the price being "eternal vigilance", wasn't it?
Actually, I'm pretty sure it was Thomas Jefferson.
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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 wh
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 conservat
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