From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 25 22:14:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C2037B479 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:14:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA12395; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:13:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3A20AA1B.85437137@urx.com> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:13:47 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Lim Cc: Chris Fedde , Justin Booth , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gentle request... FIX YOUR MUA! References: <200011260530.eAQ5UgJ26204@fedde.littleton.co.us> <001101c0576a$167218e0$fa5e78cb@gchang> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Lim wrote: > > I have no choice as most of the time i am in the office and it is using AS > USUAL windows 95 You may not have a choice on your mailer but you do have a choice on the format you use. This is one of the few lists that I subscribe to that doesn't check for html and reject the any email using it. You really cut the numer of pieces of email containing hidden Viral Basic Applications. The other lists also reject attachments, which would really be a problem around here with patches and such. Kent > > Regards, > James Lim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Fedde" > To: "James Lim" > Cc: "Justin Booth" ; > Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 1:30 PM > Subject: Gentle request... FIX YOUR MUA! > > > So many of you are using some piece of crud that puts headers like these > into > > your mail: > > > > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 > > > > There are so many problems with this that I don't even want > > to begin to get into it. If you must use this user hostile > > sub-standard piece of interface candy, please, please, please, > > configure it to send simple text when what you mean to send is > > simple text. > > > > thank you > > > > -- > > Chris Fedde > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message