On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:49:40PM +1000, John Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:59:06PM +1000, Jon Teh wrote:
> 
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> So far, so good.  But what's this?:
> 
> > Could you please stop posting with the drivel and waste of bandwidth
> that is HTML posting turned on? please? [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a public
> mailing list subscribed to by many hundreds of people; each time you
> post a message, multiply that by a hew hundred, and think of how much
> bandwidth is being used. Not to mention hundreds of peoples' disk
> space. HTML in email is useless formatting information that jacks the
> size of an email up by a minimum of a factor of 3, usually. I know
> others have asked you kindly to be more curteous when posting on list,
> but seeing as you have blatently ignored them, a bit more of a public
> reminder is in order.
> 
> 642 characters on a single line.  Wow.  You must have better eyesight
> than me.  I can't read anything in a font that small.
> 
Sorry about that, just re-setup my email, but mutt is using some strange, vile text 
editor for sending of email. My mistake.
'font that small'? I'm sorry, the format I am posting in does not specify
font size, so it is a client setting.

-- Jon Teh
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