You're right, thanks for the correction.
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Roman Korcek wrote:
Hey Sridhar,
the ext2 filesystem. Just for reference, the WinDOS FAT32 filesystem has a
minimum cluster size of 4Kb. This means that even if a file is empty, it will
still take up 4Kb.
smartypants
If a
heheh and I thought ALL you ladies were ONLY interested in size...:)
Philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
would you just drop it or take it offline
This has nothing to do with Mandrake Linux and is getting very old !
The size of a message wouldn't matter if we didn't have to wade through
Hey Sridhar,
the ext2 filesystem. Just for reference, the WinDOS FAT32 filesystem has a
minimum cluster size of 4Kb. This means that even if a file is empty, it will
still take up 4Kb.
smartypants
If a file is empty, it doesn't take up *any* space, no slack, no
cluster. A file has to be at
not to mention that Pine doesn't read HTML format. Only text.
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
I just thought I'd add my own two cents to this topic...
The UNIX e-mail system (as used in Linux) _does not_ store each e-mail as a
separate file. One look at your mail directory (usually in
[rant on]
I hate html mail,
it has funny colours that heart my eyes,
doesn't cut and past properly,
links upto nasty web sites,
tries to download stuff off of the web,
and means that my mail client needs to load another load of bloat to be able
to read html mails.
RTF is just as bad.
[rant off]
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:37:06PM -0700, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
I'm sorry Alexander, but there's no way that 3 lines of text from an email
would produce 26 lines if written in html - it just doesn't work like that.
No? You're sure? If so, have a look at this message:
Message-Id: [EMAIL
exactly! Gi'me the facts and just the facts. Just another reason I love
Pine. I only wish my workstation at work was a Linux box, then I could
use Pine all day long.
Oliver Stieber wrote:
[rant on]
I hate html mail,
it has funny colours that heart my eyes,
doesn't cut and past properly,
would you just drop it or take it offline
This has nothing to do with Mandrake Linux and is getting very old !
The size of a message wouldn't matter if we didn't have to wade through so
much off topic nonsense.
philomena
At 06:32 PM 7/19/00 +0200, you wrote:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at
I think he hate his wife also, if has one !
Oliver Stieber wrote:
[rant on]
I hate html mail,
it has funny colours that heart my eyes,
doesn't cut and past properly,
links upto nasty web sites,
tries to download stuff off of the web,
and means that my mail client needs to load another
(climbs up on soap box, and dons flame proof suit)
Alexdon't be a _ (could have used many different adverbs here...but
couldn't decide on the best one...so fill in the blank yourself...:)
The number of lines has no bearing(sp?)on the size of a short email (like most
of what is sent here)
Hey Jaguar,
I agree with you totally. Live and let live. As for me - HTML vs Text
- doesn't matter. I read both. So far I haven't seen any mail in this
list where HTML formatting would be of any help. I subscribed only two
weeks ago, though.
To everybody - to sum up - you can write in whichever
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:15:23PM -0500, John Glasscock wrote:
Most common misconception: that using HTML means filling up a message
with backgrounds, attachements, in-line jpegs or gifs or other high
bandwidth paraphernalia rather than simply the judicious use of bold and
italics (which
John Glasscock wrote:
Report on the topic.
Thanks for the summary, to which I have to say I agree with your
opinion. I did not respond to your request on the basis I am mainly a
reader and being a GNOME user tend to use a email client capable of
reading text and html and was therefore not
Hmm, this does not fit. Have you ever even looked at the size of a
HTML mail vs. a text only mail? Right now I remember of one of those
unsubscribe emails. It was 26 lines big, compared to a text only
unsubscribe email of only 3 lines.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that
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