From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 17 06:38:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01699 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 06:38:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from r.scl.ameslab.gov (r.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01678 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 06:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov) Received: from demios.scl.ameslab.gov (demios.ether.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.54]) by r.scl.ameslab.gov (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id IAA19983 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:12:42 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:12:42 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail? In-Reply-To: <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > It seems to me that in the last couple of months the number of > hard-to-read mail messages has significantly increased. It seems to me like the number of impossible-to-read messages has increased, e.g. MIME-encoded messages for which I don't have an automatic reader and have to save the messages to disk and use "more" on them (although I usually just "d" if the subject sounds completely useless). In particular, I despise "TEXT/html" encoded messages... Guy Helmer, Computer Science Graduate Student - ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Iowa State University http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames Laboratory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message