Re: GAS-L: ..swinging the 9-tailed on message quote style

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Saturday 12 January 2002 20:08, Greg and April wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harmon Seaver"
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:42
> Subject: Re: GAS-L: ..swinging the 9-tailed on message quote style
>
> > Greg and April wrote:
> > > On one of the list that I'm on, that require a paticular format,
> > > the
>
> people
>
> > > are given instructions on how to set up their software.
> >
> >      ???? Such as what? Turning off html in email is an extremely
> > easy thing to do in any mail reader, it's just a matter of choosing
> > to do it.
>
> If you know what your doing, not everyone does.

..which is _why_ we should have this guide available.

> > Everyone has that much access, to the reader preferences, even in a
> > corporate environment. And if you look at the headers of those who
> > persist in sending html email, you'll see that they're all outlook
> > or aol users, both of which can be easily modified.
>
> Again not everyone is tecnosavy enough to know what one setting does
> -vs- another setting, I know of one case on a list that used
> plaintext, that no matter what setting was used, the company had full
> control, and the output was html only, this case went on for about
> 4-6 weeks before the person is question finaly had to give up and
> quit the list, because a few people kept getting on his back about
> the html.

..see above.

> >      The fact is that it's just plain rude and inconsiderate of
> > others to send email and/or attachments of any sort to a list, many
> > of the readers of which live in third world countries and have to
> > pay dearly for each byte the receive.
>
> Oh, you mean like how Yahoo attaches an ad to the e-mail of people
> who use them?  I don't see how it's the falt of people when they have
> no control, over what a third party does to e-mail.  Yes, they could
> stop using third party e-mail, but, then they may not have e-mail
> altogether.
>
> Greg H

..ads in e-mail is an un-polite no-no, that should be boycotted.  
I'll add a wee section advicing on free ad-free e-mail services.

..a message massage server will solve this automatically, by stripping 
off ads and html, then placing quotes exactly where they belong, in 
many cases, '/dev/null'.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with kind regards from Arnt...  ;-)

  Scenarios always come in sets of three:
  best case, worst case, and just in case.


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