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Re: Removal of my brain
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol () JustThe net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:15:47 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 billn () billn net wrote:
The world has more than eight bits. The community at large (read: me)
does
not care if someone has been left out because they *chose* to be or lacks the ability or wherewithal to adapt. In short: Technical snobbery is not operational. It took more effort to respond saying the mail couldn't be read than it probably took to sanitize it for reading. Being a member of the vocal minority isn't a point of pride, you're just louder than someone else.
I don't know why this is even an issue. I'm on a shell account, on a linux box, reading mail using Pine, and HTML mail is rendered just fine here, as text with some minimal amount of markup (extremely minimal). Pine runs on just about anything, has been around for years, is stable, and doesn't require plugins or mailcap entries to sanely render HTML to a text-only display. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.
Current thread:
- Re: Removal of my brain, (continued)
- Re: Removal of my brain Todd Vierling (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain billn (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain Randy Bush (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain Randy Bush (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain Joseph S D Yao (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain Richard Irving (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain bmanning (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain Richard Irving (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my brain Steve Sobol (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my name Joseph S D Yao (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my name Randy Bush (Sep 20)
- Re: Removal of my name Christopher X. Candreva (Sep 22)
- Re: Removal of my name David Meyer (Sep 20)