Hey! Hey you guys!!! I personally agree with both of you and try to keep my mail formatted according to the "accepted" standard on each list I'm a member of.... But I made a mistake all right?
It's fine with me if you carry on with the "war", but I'd appreciate being left out of it.... even though I started it...... <grin> Later, Kevin Traas -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 10:04 PM Subject: Re: DNS Problem >On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote: > >> On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: >> > Okay, first suggestion is to turn off rich text or HTML email in your mail >> > client. Email does NOT have pretty colors or centering and I usually just >> > delete any message I see which looks like a webpage. >> >> That's a bit of a broad sweeping statement. I guess you'll be using 7-bit >> ASCII in the year 2050 then. >> >> I would think HTML would be more acceptable than something like RTF. > >HTML is not e-mail, it's HTML. When I get a mail which looks like a web >page, I usually just hit 'D', I don't have time to try to parse out all >the formatting codes to read it. And yes, I'll happily be using 7bit or >8bit text in 2050 for email. Binary attachments are fine when necessary, >making the core of a text message unreadable isn't. > >-- >Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
