Re: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-20 Thread Jaguar
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

Re: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
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

RE: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-19 Thread Oliver Stieber
[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]

Re: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
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,

Re: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-19 Thread Eric MC.D
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

Re: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-18 Thread Jaguar
(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)