[95333] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Email Formats Re: V-Cards O-F-F Please!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Lee Green)
Fri Oct 16 21:22:42 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:24:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Lee Green <eric@linux-hw.com>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Bunicula the Vampire Rabbit wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tim Daigle wrote:
> > Wow! sometimes this list is a paradox. We use Linux, a fairly complex
> > operating system that requires a certain level of technical prowess to use.
> > We criticise M$ for dumbing things down too much. But we still use Pine and
> > complain when we get emails with v-card info and HTML ... and then go to
> > the extreme and request that all mail be in acsii. Huh...
Some of us dial in to work to read our mail. I have extensive procmail
scripts running at work to seperate my EMAIL into various mailboxes, and
using IMAP to read them is not an option. (Well, it COULD be an option,
but I'm too #$% lazy to set it up).
Personally, I press the "d" key in Pine when I see a message in HTML.
Way I figure, if they aren't interested in being clear and concise, I'll
be clear and concise for them (single-key clear and concise :-). After
all, nobody is paying me to answer their questions on this group,
so why should I put out one extra erg worth of energy to load Lynx to
decode their message?
> personally i think that rich text / html email is the obvious way to go. a
Only if you are a Microsoftie :-).
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Eric Lee Green eric@linux-hw.com http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
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