Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:40:25 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>, "flygt@sr.se" <flygt@sr.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: building ports thru a firewall Message-ID: <19980827174025.C27059@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <199808271323.JAA23119@laker.net>; from Steve Friedrich on Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 09:23:50AM -0500 References: <199808271323.JAA23119@laker.net>
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On Thu 1998-08-27 (09:23), Steve Friedrich wrote: > Besides, some of these newer mailers have some really cool features, > even if your older mailer doesn't support them, such as html > formatting. This is way cool. Are you guys throwing stones at it > merely because your mailer doesn't support that feature ?? Shame on > you. You remind me of senile citizens. I think most of us use console-mode mailers, simply because they're faster and easier to use than their graphical equivalents. We further don't need HTML formatting in our mails, we can express ourselves pretty well with words, most of the time, and if we really wanted HTML formatting to express something, we'd give a URL to a web page, since that is where HTML belongs. > Instead of whining about the newest features, you should try to > incorporate these into unix programs and do them at least one better. Incorporating HTML formatting into a text-mode client is rather silly, for the most part. Incorporating HTML formatting into a graphical client would be a much better idea, and there is work being done in this area. For now, however, I think that when we, as FreeBSD users, talking amongst ourselves, and with people interested in our Operating System (and it's an amazing one, at that), we'd prefer to talk in words and not a whole bunch of tags telling us what colour backgrounds to use, or text colouring and effects to produce. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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