From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 22 04:09:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03662 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 04:09:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mhs (mhs.swan.ac.uk [137.44.1.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA03646; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 04:09:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from G.S.J.Howell@swansea.ac.uk) Received: from www-compsci.swan.ac.uk by mhs with SMTP-LOCAL (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:06:01 +0000 Received: from Swansea.ac.uk (cscall [137.44.2.58]) by www-compsci.swan.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28545; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:18:19 GMT (envelope-from G.S.J.Howell@Swansea.ac.uk) Message-ID: <36A86A24.60DE0C68@Swansea.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:08:04 +0000 From: G X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) To: Miguel Sierra , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: getting machine on internet References: <211D0157FD1FD21190DB00104B8765E906D12E@mail> <36985738.4B2DE9BF@softweyr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote: > I have two quick suggestions. > > First, tell "Internet Mail Service" (whatever THAT is) to STOP sending > HTML. Send ASCII text instead. It will be much more readable by > people on the FreeBSD mailing lists. You will also want to keep > your mail messages within 80 columns, for those who are using text- > based mailers. AFAIK, it is possible to tell majordomo to filter out HTML posts. I wish the admin would do this. Just my 0.02 ukp. G. -- Geraint Howell, Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP. UK. Tel:(+44)1792 295 651 Fax:(+44)1792 295 708 E-mail: g.s.j.howell[at]swansea.ac.uk "The geeks shall inherit the Earth" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message