No I'm not going to retype the subject

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Thu Feb 3 11:03:11 2000

I really hate that HTML mail crap, too, and usually just delete it. I
have little enough time, anyway, I don't want to waste it it in HTML
unless I'm writing it.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, John Wilson wrote:

> >From: allisonp_at_world.std.com
>
> >Another pet peeve, posts/replies in html, I don't read them and dump them
> >sumarily as A) they are often spam, B)the are a pain to handle via said
> >slow telnet and pine.
>
> I have the same attitude, WHY do people think we would even want to see a
> fancy schmancy version of what they typed as simple ASCII text, especially
> when many of us read this list on simple ASCII terminals anyway so we can't
> see any of the colors or misaligned columns. It's especially annoying when
> a message contains the same text twice, once as text and once as HTML, so
> at least half of the message is useless to *everyone*. I would *love* it if
> list servers could be set up to filter this crap out, or at the very least
> run the HTML text through Lynx or something and translate it back to usable
> 80-column ASCII.
>
> FWIW I'm not crazy about the new header format, when I replied to this msg
> with "R" (I'm using Berkeley Mail) it would have gone to Allison only, and
> when I changed to "r", the mailing list was only there as a Cc:, if I had
> edited out the other recipients there would have been *no* primary recipient,
> only a Cc:. And that's certainly not what we want!
>
> This problem comes up on every mailing list, maybe it would make sense to
> define an X-Foo: header that gives the mailing list address and hack the
> popular mailers to have a "reply to mailing list" command? Or has this
> already been done and I'm just oblivious as usual? Of course this wouldn't
> help Windows users running canned mailers with no source code available,
> but what can I say, shame on you!!! :-)
>
> John Wilson
> D Bit
>

M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852

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