Y2K

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_netcom.com>
Date: Tue Jan 5 22:49:59 1999

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>
> And PLEASE turn off the Microtrash HTML nonsense, it's rude to send HTML to
> a mailing list. Rememeber there are a lot of people that don't read your
> messages because they are being sent in HTML. A lot/most people,
> especially on this mailing list, are using software that doesn't cope with
> HTML.
>


  This comes up just as I was going to post my own (off-topic) rant
 re:HTML tags in mailing lists and newsgroups:

  I M H O: It is clue-impaired and rude to do so, unless
inadvertently/occasionally. Many of Us subscribe to more than one
maillist... I personally average 200-400 messages per *day*, and HTML
goes to /dev/null unread; a damn shame if you had something to say to
me that might have been of interest to either of us.

  Yes I have a PPP account, yes I have my own domain/webpages, and
ISDN access.... nonetheless all my mail is routed to this account, a
Unix shell, ASCII-based, VT-100, gimme that Ol' Time Religion account.

  I have resisted the urge to send the text w/tags back to the
individuals privately.. just to give them an idea of what a *drag*
it is. There's enough of that childishness going around, anyway.

  Also for those individual's consideration is the factoid that in
some locations, persons pay *by the second* for their Inet access,
and I imagine they're more pissed off than most.

  LAST BIT: ***Seventy-Two*** (72) columns!!!! Please!! I hate trying
to
read material that looks like a siesmo-log
and
is impossible to scan without getting tennis-match type
eye
strain, or something. You get the picture.

  Okay... rant off.... :)

ObClassiccmp: This saturday I am going to rescue an entire Prime
system, CPU, disks, printer(s) two Kennedy tape drives, and 50 (!)
boxes of 1/2" tape. This system was central to a large division of
the California State Gummint, and I am taking my portable industrial
strength de-gausser with me.... a condition imposed by the rescuees.
I can keep the OS and utils and such, but the HDs have been
previously formatted and the backup tapes must be wiped or left there
to be destroyed. WooHoo!

  Cheers

John
Received on Tue Jan 05 1999 - 22:49:59 GMT