Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

[Stroller]

On 10 Jan 2010, at 18:09, Valmor de Almeida wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk
> > wrote:
>> Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this
>> post in plain text format?
>>
>> Stroller.
>
>
> Below is my last post copied and pasted into gmail without the html
> hot links. I am doing this from within systemrescuecd using firefox
> and gmail. Don't know how to make it plain ascii otherwise.
> Hopefully just eliminating the html links will work. Stroller, is
> this what you are referring to?

Both messages contain html text formatting. If you look at your last  
message (the one to which I'm replying now, Message-ID: <128ccc221001101009v75f23dcey7d52967b16f7d13b@××××××××××.com 
 >) in a text editor, for instance:

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The problem I have with this is that it seems difficult in my mail  
client to snip excessive quoting when I reply. If I switch to plain  
text, all the quoting marks / indenting disappears because (as per the  
snippet above) it's using an arbitrary html construction ("border- 
left: 1px solid; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> to  
represent that.

Just use plain text. It's the convention. It's simple, it works. If  
Gmail imposes this html upon you then I suggest you use IMAP to access  
your gmail account. You're using Gentoo, so there are plenty of  
clients which enable you to do this: mutt, pine, Thunderbird,  
Kmail, ... any of them can post in plain text.

I'm sorry to sound like a knob - I do admit to having a bee in my  
bonnet about this at the moment. I have a client who sends me 100kb  
emails with tiny unreadable text, a yellow background and multiple  
images (at least 7), just to convey a sentence or two of actual  
content. They pad maybe 150 bytes of text with 100,000 bytes of crap  
(the entire text of "Pride & Prejudice" is 700kb), and its effect is  
to make the content less readable; I can't bitch to them about their  
idiocy, because they pay me thousands a year.

I know this isn't your fault, but I had been quite busy for some hours  
and was perhaps tired when I clicked reply to your message last night.  
I clicked on the text so as to quote inline and a whole paragraph lit  
up as my mailer tried to deal with it; so I clicked on y mailer's  
plain text button and all the quote marks disappeared and I couldn't  
see who had said what. I just couldn't be arsed to deal with it. Just  
use plain text. It's the convention. It's simple, it works.

Stroller.