From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 5:37:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2BBD37B409 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 05:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15hsDl-0005ol-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:37:26 +0000 Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 9419AB673; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:19:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:19:40 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBDS-Questions Subject: Re: Memory usage Message-ID: <20010914141940.B16808@raggedclown.net> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBDS-Questions References: <200109140502.f8E52uI27592@fedde.littleton.co.us> <009101c13d01$bff2b320$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <009101c13d01$bff2b320$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:43:46AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:43:46AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I challenge anyone who think's HTML is needed to come up with an idea > or concept that is able to be conveyed in HTMLized e-mail that is not > able to be conveyed in ASCII. When you can do that then I might think > that it's worth having. > I will be very curious to see if *anyone* can take up this challenge! HTML mail has no justification, and is not even in the author's interest, since many people reading a lot of mailing list msgs every day may simply say "what the hell" and hit the delete key. This is number #2 in my pet hates. #1 is people who do not use meaningful Subject: lines... As stated before a subject of "HELP!!!!" is suitable if you wish to be saved from a burning house, not if you want to know how to get your firewall rules to work... -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message