From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 5 08:11:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29993 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA29988 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:11:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.227.78] (helo=i-zone.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 0zFJyn-0003ON-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 15:10:22 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:06:09 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Subject: Re: building ports thru a firewall References: <199808271546.LAA29596@laker.net> In-Reply-To: <199808271546.LAA29596@laker.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 4.00 <8P7LwQhRCnIWQRT3OpZyTlnKDO> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199808271546.LAA29596@laker.net>, Steve Friedrich writes >And I'm simply trying to say that you're ignoring a significant trend >in this industry. Many people, other than you and Greg, like the idea >of someone sending them html formatted email. It's damn convienient to >be able to click on a link within an email message. I receive many >emails from this list with such links. Welcome to the nineties, dude. >8o) There are email clients around that will recognise the link part of an email without the rest being HTML formatted. To the majority of people, HTML formatted mail comes across as a load of unintelligible rubbish. It can add greatly to the payload of each email. The acceptance of email generally is greatly aided by the fact that everyone with the simplest mail client can use it. I don't want or need to know what particular software someone has in order for me to send him or her a message - it is implicit that the recipient will be able to read my message by virtue of the fact that they have an email address, that email is for plain text and that I am sending plain text. If I want them to see HTML, I put a link in my message that they can cut 'n paste to a browser. Similarly, I know that if I make a website that people will access it with a browser, and it is implicit that the browser can understand HTML therefore the user can see what the browser understands. Of course, I could mention that the htmlisation of email is a micro$oft conspiracy to webify everything to the desktop but I don't want to start a religious war, and anyway I'd be paranoid to think this :) -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message