[GRLUG] Linux desktop marketshare

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:09:18PM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007 12:55 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > 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.

Sending attachments of any kind is generally frowned upon in mailing
lists.  Witness the recent discussion of those still on dial-up.
Imagine sending a  *small* one-megabyte attachment to a guy in the
country getting 26K from his old, crusty copper lines.  It is being
considerate to send a link for him to download from should he choose to
do so.

> Real men use only the command line,
> and the most primitive e-mail possible.
> And of course an ASCII browser.

Yes, real men use the command line.  And?  ;-)  Command-line email is
not primitive.  I use mutt and can view graphical images (see above!)
attached to email.  I can browse links from within my text-mode email
with a browser that enables me to view graphical images (should I so
choose).  I can do these things without Xorg running (but I do need a
framebuffer).  Oh, and it is not an ASCII-only mail client (or
command-line browser) - it also does UTF-8.  :-)

The complaints about HTML mail and line-width, etc. are not focused on
technological issues but rather issues of readability and
long-established guidelines for mailing list communication.

> Doggone.  I used a narrow message format
> again...
> 
> Vee must haf rules.

I like you, Bob.  You are funny.  ;-)
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john-thomas
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