On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:06:11PM -0500, Charles Sebold wrote: > simple, stupid" (the stupid is not aimed at you or him, it's just a > saying). Besides, sometimes you don't have X11. I use my system as > much from terminals as I do at the console. I'm doing this in a tty > even as we speak.
i read all my mail on the console and not from X > RTF, for most people, has to be compiled from source or a GUI, as does > PostScript or PDF. What a hassle. precisly. mail is simple standard involving sending plain text, as it should be. if you need more `features' you should compose your presentation in some other program and send an attachment. > (Not trying to start a fight, just explaining my position. And I note > that Ethan Benson just went to the trouble of "plonk"-ing the OP. If > you are sending to this list in a format which won't be read by the > most avid and helpful poster, maybe it's time to reconsider your > format.) besides 99% of html i get is spam, it makes for a very efficient spam filter. right now i just do it by eye, [ -- html -- ] *delete* but a procmail recipe to route all html mail to /dev/null would be faster... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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