[95288] in RedHat Linux List
Re: vcards, redhat-digest Digest V98 #1259
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Fri Oct 16 14:10:40 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:09:47 +0000
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Walter B Kulecz, PhD wrote:
> >Would all subscribers using Mickeysoft OS's and compatible mailers
> >plz turn off your vcards!? It's driving me nuts, not to mention
> >wasting b'width and h'drive space.
> >
> Never gonna happen -- you might as well be asking people to trim their
> context quotes.
Problem is, our messages are only visible today. They don't help tomorrow.
I've politely asked a few people to just use plain text, and they switched,
every one!
So, never gonna happen is not quite correct - we just have to reply to
offenders with
"Please email PLAIN TEXT messages to this mailing list - we don't like
html, rtf and vcards - they're big and slow for all and unreadable my many".
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.07 on Red Hat Linux 5.1
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