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Nestor Camacho III posted <43565060.5040604@××××.com>, excerpted below, |
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on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:55:44 -0400: |
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> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> |
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> <html> |
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> <head> |
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> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> |
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> <title></title> |
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> </head> |
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> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> |
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> I have one of those Sun Java workstations, and figured I would put |
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> gentoo on it. While I was installing it I would sometimes get the |
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> following symptoms. <br> |
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Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to your question, but... in the |
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future could you please refrain from posting HTML to the list? It's |
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common in the Linux and open source community to consider HTML mail the |
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playground of spammers and crackers, and as such, many either filter it |
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entirely, or at minimum use clients that don't parse it, for security |
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reasons. Thus, HTML posts come out looking like crap, if they are seen at |
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all, and folks that might otherwise have your answer never reply, either |
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because they didn't see the post in the first place, or because they |
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simply don't reply to those that post HTML. |
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On the Gentoo lists/groups, people aren't as strict and you'll often get a |
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reply, but it's still a good idea to turn off HTML once you are made aware |
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of the fact you are posting with it. After all, is your post /really/ so |
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lacking in content that it /must/ be dressed up all fancy in HTML to make |
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it interesting enough to read? If not, why waste the bandwidth and risk |
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offense, unnecessarily? |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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