On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:50:18PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> I suspect one likely group would be the companies who depend
> on advertising revenue. With HTML, they can stuff tracking
> (whether direct like hidden pixels or indirect by changing
> any URLs in the message to go through their ser
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:06:03PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote:
> HTML provides all of the features [...]
HTML also provides all of the bugs.
"Nothin's free." (c.f. "Crossfire", Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1989)
Several points (and these aren't exhaustive, merely illustrative):
1. It is very difficult to
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote:
> The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make
> me a newbie. That's what abstractions in our world are for.
Yes, it *does* make you an ignorant newbie, on the topic of "automotive
engine maintenance". (I'm o
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:30:14AM -0600, Dale A. Raby wrote:
> Ignorant newbies may at some point become the Michael Elkins of the
> future.
They may. And that would be an entirely good thing, for them and
for all of us.
But that doesn't preclude the fact that they're ignorant newbies *today*.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:59:55AM -0600, David Young wrote:
> One reason email software is not more useful is that because too many
> smart people wage a losing war on the new, foreign ways of email instead
> of programming filters that transform top-posted, red, 5000-column
> emails to the style
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:44:35PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote:
> If you keep track, you'll probably find, as I have, that HTML-only
> e-mail is between 99% to 100% spam.
HTML email is sent exclusively by three groups of people:
1. Ignorant newbies
2. Ineducable morons
3. Spammers
There are no excep
I've been following this discussion and I have a lengthy comment.
Let me begin by quoting Robert Heinlein:
"Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid
excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide
lubrication where people rub together. Often
I find grepmail (http://grepmail.sourceforge.net) very handy for this purpose.
---Rsk
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:08:53PM -0700, Igor Pruchanskiy wrote:
> I am having some serious lag sending mail to this list.
> Is that normal ? Takes about 20 min to show up on the list
You've *got* to be kidding. "Serious lag" would be > 1 day. Anything
less than that is perfectly accep
etely obvious that
already provides this functionality; I've RTFM'd, RTFFAQ'd, and
done some surfing -- either it's not there or my caffeine level
is far below that required for cogent thought.
Thanks,
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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