From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 13:23:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02380 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:23:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02351 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:23:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 105BOI-0000ZA-00; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:31:02 +0000 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:31:02 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Larry S. Marso" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Polite Advocacy on -questions WAS: learning UNIX Message-ID: <19990126163102.A2165@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19990125225933.C6464@marso.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990125225933.C6464@marso.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Larry S. Marso wrote: > Thinking about this, I wonder ... > > Why not write a procmail script that pipes html e-mail to: > > netscape -remote 'openURL('$1',new-window)' 1. I don't use procmail. 2. A lot of the time I don't have X running (I don't now), so it would be rather difficult for netscape to start. 3. If I did, netscape takes a while to start up, and hogs memory 4. If I want to read some fancy formatted HTML shit, I'll look at the web. That's not what email is for. HTH -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message