[95542] in RedHat Linux List
Re: V-Cards O-F-F Please!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TIM SOFTWARE)
Mon Oct 19 11:01:40 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:09:46 +0300 (MSK)
From: TIM SOFTWARE <timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su>
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Chuck Mead wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tim Daigle wrote:
>
> > "If you want me to read what you have to say, please make it easy for me."
> >
> > 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...
> >
> So where were you when you wrote this? I am about 140 miles from
> home and I'm not sending this from a laptop using a pretty GUI email
> program. I was polite when I asked people to "please" turn off the
> vcards. They are a waste. A signature does just fine and it doesn't
> show up as an attachment. Notice that I didn't bark about HTML! I
> use Pine 4.05 and it can read that (though I think that HTML
> needlessly bloats email size). So I guess we need HTML to be able to
> communicate effectively, we need signatures, and we need vCards
> 'cause heaven knows someone might miss the signature file so let's
> annoy them with one more needless piece of crap taking up space on
> their harddrive! Christ on a crutch!! How does it advance our
> ability to communicate? And yes... I can and do delete it rather
> than complain but I thought it might be okay to "ask", just to ask,
> mind you for some consideration on this issue. If it were truly a
> genuine advancement of the medium I'd be behind it but it's not,
> .sig's have worked just fine and they always will, we don't need
> both!
>
Fully agree with you!
That GUI programms SUXX!
If you want to mail under X-window you can use Xemacs!
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