On Thursday 11 April 2002 12:53 am, Rich Rudnick wrote:
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 00:35, ben wrote:
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 11:54 pm, Simon Hepburn wrote:
ben wrote:
thanks for the input. so, on attachments, none? some?
If I'm helping people out with, say X problems for example, I'd
On Thursday 11 April 2002 02:39 am, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Hi all,
My posts on this topic generated more heat than light - apologies to
anyone offended.
none taken, although your more recent suggestion involving list-customized
filters seems like way too much interference in the freedom that
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 11:16, ben wrote:
On Thursday 11 April 2002 02:39 am, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Hi all,
I didn't say force people to use filters. I said that if you don't like
something, it makes sense to filter it and things like ms-tnef are
particularly easy to filter.
formatting in mail
On 11 Apr 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Does that exculde the hotmail yahoo whatever browser-based mailer
people?
No. They don't send in HTML. Though I would discourage anybody from
using Hotmail as it's owned by the enemy, and Yahoo due to spamming
practices.
ms-tnef is not a mail format. I
On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:10 am, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
On 11 Apr 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Does that exculde the hotmail yahoo whatever browser-based mailer
people?
No. They don't send in HTML. Though I would discourage anybody from
using Hotmail as it's owned by the enemy, and
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, ben wrote:
4. reply to the list only, unless specifically requested to cc:
this has as much to do with conserving bandwidth as does eliminating html,
etc. i read the list. i don't need duplicates. let those who do request them.
This is easy enough to procmail out. If
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:46, ben wrote:
On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:10 am, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
On 11 Apr 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
Does that exculde the hotmail yahoo whatever browser-based mailer
I'm pretty easy about all this. Its all a lot more reasonable than
writing to
1. no spam
2. text-only (no html, ms-tnef, etc.)
3. wrap text
4. English preferred.
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begin ben quotation:
4. reply to the list only, unless specifically requested to cc:
This can happen because of a buggy mail client, or because the original
sender has set message flags to cause this to happen, which again can be
because of a buggy mail client or a deliberate configuration
begin Patrick Kirk quotation:
Does that exculde the hotmail yahoo whatever browser-based mailer
people?
Not any more than it does now; html is already against the list rules.
Hotmail and Yahoo can both be set to send plain-text mail. If someone
chooses to do differently, they have only
4. Spell check.
i think stipulating a spell check would impose too much on many
non-native english speakers whose participation on this list is very
valuable, and the purpose of the rules is to enable harmonious
inclusion rather than exclusion. apart from that, misspelled words
are hardly
On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:51, Kent West wrote:
1. no spam
2. text-only (no html, ms-tnef, etc.)
3. wrap text
4. English preferred.
I do agree, but anyway most of the messages are posted in english. The
few that are not in english are from first-timers. I often redirect
messages
begin Daniel Toffetti quotation:
The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to require it
to post to the list.
It can in fact be detrimental for non-Native speakers, because if the
spell checker suggests a word that is not at all what you meant, you
might go oh, is that what it
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 10:15, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
4. Spell check.
i think stipulating a spell check would impose too much on many
non-native english speakers whose participation on this list is very
valuable,
snip
The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to require
Shawn writes:
It can in fact be detrimental for non-Native speakers, because if the
spell checker suggests a word that is not at all what you meant, you
might go oh, is that what it is? OK. and pick something bizarre.
That's because most spelling checkers know too many words.
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John Hasler
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