[newbie] Would people please stop sending HTML mail to this list?

[pauljw]

the subject says it all

Re: [newbie] Would people please stop sending HTML mail to this list?

[pauljw]

stephan schutter wrote:
 
 Why? HTML is pretty much a standard... outlook, eudora, netskape mail...
 

Because many of us don't want to wait twice as long for a group of
messages to download just because lots of them are HTML.

I might add: Why use html when the contents is only text and uses none
of the other features that exist which make html the standard for Web
pages? Why set us all up for a download that is twice as long as need be
for messages that actually don't need any html features at all?

[newbie] another round of the old-messages number

[pauljw]

I just got a passle of messages from 7/8.

"Curiouser, and curiouser," said Alice.

[newbie] lost info in bash prompt

[pauljw]

I did some fiddling and had to put my home (user, not root) directory
back in place from a backup. Happily, everything worked save for the
bash prompt. It looks like: bash-2.03$. It used to show the user name
and the current directory. How can I get that back?

TIA,
-Paul-

Re: [newbie] Configuration

[pauljw]

Axalon wrote:
 
 Am I the only one that just got a large chunk of mail from July 7th?

I've had a few older ones dribbling in, but no large chunk.
-- 
-Paul-

Re: [newbie] KDESU

[pauljw]

Axalon wrote:
 
 It is intentional, confuses people who like to stare over shoulders


That would be a fine idea if it worked. I have the same problem as Irv
Mullins. Neither of us can log on as superuser using kdesu because it
won't accept the password.

 
 On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Irv Mullins wrote:
 
 
  Does anyone know why, when you try to use
  terminal (super user, kdesu) you get a password dialog,
  in which every key pressed is echoed three times?
 
  Example: if root password were pig, you would type
  pig, and see echoed: *  (9 starz)
  and an invalid password message. Of course it's invalid,
  there are three times as many characters as you typed in.
  This makes kdesu unusable.
  Any ideas?
 
  Irv
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