From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 25 22:17:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from seed.pacific.net.sg (seed.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F7837B4CF for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:17:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop2.pacific.net.sg (pop2.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.86]) by seed.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id eAQ6H6J11812; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:17:06 +0800 (SGT) Received: from gchang (spoff250.pacific.net.sg [203.120.94.250]) by pop2.pacific.net.sg with SMTP id OAA11238; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:17:05 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <005201c05770$2f12f8a0$fa5e78cb@gchang> From: "James Lim" To: Cc: "Chris Fedde" , "Justin Booth" , References: <200011260530.eAQ5UgJ26204@fedde.littleton.co.us> <001101c0576a$167218e0$fa5e78cb@gchang> <3A20AA1B.85437137@urx.com> Subject: Re: Gentle request... FIX YOUR MUA! Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:14:49 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I will make the changes, for such minor issue i am not able to keep track on a daily basis as a few of my coleagues share the same terminal as I am. I will change it to plain text Regards, James Lim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" To: "James Lim" Cc: "Chris Fedde" ; "Justin Booth" ; Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 2:13 PM Subject: Re: Gentle request... FIX YOUR MUA! > > > 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