[GRLUG] Linux desktop marketshare

[Greg Folkert]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:09 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007 12:55 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Dec 12, 2007 11:18 AM, Chase Bolen <chase.bolen at gmail.com>
>         wrote:
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>         [snip broken text]
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>         Can we please stop defanging HTML emails?  Is there *anyone*
>         on this
>         list whose client doesn't support multi-part emails?  Any
>         text-mode
>         Linux client maintained within the last five to ten years
>         should work. 
>         
>         --
>          
> 
> Talk like that could set off another
> protracted flame war.  The last pass
> at e-mail had it that only ASCII  messages
> are permitted.   God forbid you send a 
> photograph or other image.
> 
> Real men use only the command line,
> and the most primitive e-mail possible.
> And of course an ASCII browser.
> 
> Doggone.  I used a narrow message format 
> again...   
> 
> Vee must haf rules.
> 
>     -Bob

The best part is, YOU BOB with your broken way of doing things, send the
e-mail text twice in a single message. Once in your broken "HTML"
defanged as it is... and once as straight text. There by at least
doubling the size of the message... all without your knowledge.

I guess Clue-By-Four is not enough. I wonder how thick it must be to get
through.
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