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Nicholas Hockey schrieb: |
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> LOOK I'M TOP POSTING IN ALL CAPS, OMG YOU MIGHT DIE!!!! |
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> I don't know why ppl just want to bitch about top posting and HTML? Sure |
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> back when we were all on an old external hays 9600 it was irritating to |
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> download all that extra crap. |
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So it is nowadays. Where's the GAIN in using HTML? If people |
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use HTML to do some (senseful) markup, I wouldn't object. But |
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have a look at |
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Message-ID: <4364D68A.6060901@××××××××××.net> |
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:19:54 -0600 |
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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> |
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The text/plain part is only about 600 bytes. The text/html |
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part is about 1500 bytes. 1500 bytes for nothing at all. |
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So the mail was 2100 bytes in size, while 600 would have |
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been sufficient. That's just EXTREMELY bad behaviour. |
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> But adding a few extra kb doesn’t mean |
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> much now, |
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That's not the point. It adds few extra kb for nothing at all. |
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> Could you try not to send HTML messages to the list? A big portion of |
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> us read our emails under command line, and people like me don't have a |
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> brain that can parse the HTML and make sense of it before my finger |
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> hits the "delete" button. |
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> Also please try to avoid top posting. |
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What's that? Why are you writing this? This contradicts |
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all you've written at the top that mail. Strange. |
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But here you're completely right in those last few lines. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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