Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:14:52 -0500 From: "George M. Ellenburg" <gme@inspace.net> To: <bradm@gem.co.za>, <isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Web Page Restrictions Message-ID: <01bcf9bd$42e6fa20$f828cccf@caffeine>
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-----Original Message----- From: bradm@gem.co.za <bradm@gem.co.za> To: isp@freebsd.org <isp@freebsd.org> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 7:50 AM Subject: Re: Web Page Restrictions | |> On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Rick Morel wrote: |> > Perhaps it's _your_ email client that's "broken", as you say, in that it |> > can't handle the various styles of others? Ever think of that, A-hole? Or is |> > only what you use the best? |> |> If you bother to check the X-Mailer header on the messages containing |> *answers*, you will probably find that most of them are text based. |> |> You want to cut that segment of the population out of your support |> stream? Fine with me. | |I guess the "new" generation all use Microsoft products anyways... why |are they on this mailing list if they are? Excuse me... Some of us are on this mailing list because we are all ISP's or we work for ISP's. Maybe our servers are FreeBSD/ Linux/ SCO based - but it's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Out workstations are Win95 or WinNT. It's impossible for me to send a letter, which has been formatted with one of the Unix postscript and non postscript tfu's and expect a colleague at the other end of the hall to be able to work with it. The fact of the matter is, I have to use M$ Word or Wordperfect (or Lotus Word Pro). Typically I use MS Word, plainly because it's a decent word processing program. It's not right for anyone to continue on and degrade another individual for their choice of E-Mail software. Take a step back ... isn't that a little petty? Greg, I hate to point this out to you - but it's your choice to use Mutt as your E-Mail client ever so much that it's my choice to use Outlook Express (or Eudora Pro). You could always use Pine, you know. There's a wondrous key combonation called ^J which will add the appropriate line breaks and rejustify a paragraph (in Pine). It's also just as wrong for anyone else to denegrade Greg for his E-Mail client as it was for him to denegrade others. Personally, Mutt to me is a godsend when I have to clear mail out of someone's mailbox who has gotten mail-bombed. Pine is excellent, IMHO, for everday correspondence. But the time I spend logged into my FreeBSD machine is no where the amount of time I spend logged into my other workstations. Yes I know I have the capability to telnet - but why? O.E. and Eudora work in a client/server manner. Why should I waste my own machine's resources by tying it up with me handling the hordes of mail I receive each day. Just my two-bits worth. |Text people, clean, pure text, that's what email is meant for. | |My .2c | |Brad Meier |-- |GEM Internet | |PS. It also helps when you sometimes use a web-mail client. |
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