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

1999-07-26 Per discussione pauljw
the subject says it all

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

1999-07-26 Per discussione 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

[newbie] another round of the old-messages number

1999-07-23 Per discussione pauljw
I just got a passle of messages from 7/8. "Curiouser, and curiouser," said Alice.

[newbie] lost info in bash prompt

1999-07-17 Per discussione 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

1999-07-16 Per discussione 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

1999-07-06 Per discussione 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: