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From: "Chris Peterson" <capeterson@visi.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Unloading Linux
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:16:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000501c1a9ec$79726280$6801030a@greatmachine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x7y9ifii76.fsf@speech.braille.uwo.ca>

Sounds like just about any list I've run...

So about this HTML e-mail thing...  Has anyone thought of figuring out how
to preprocess HTML mail so it looks fine in pine?  I wonder if it could be
as simple as piping procmail through lynx or something.

Perhaps I'll have to work on that in my copious spare time... <smile>

Chris



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Unloading Linux


> Yes, there are two things about our readers you need to know, one they
> don't know how to read to the end of a thread to see if it has been
> answered or they just like to see themselves in print. Two, they can't
> resist pulling in previous postings with 7,000 lines just so they can
> say "yeah, me too!".  Oh, and there's a third thing, they don't know
> how to turn off html and just use plain text in their mail messages.
> It is quite frustrating to read an answer posted by 15 people with the
> same result.  I like to tell myself they just haven't learned yet; but
> some folks have been doing the exact same behaviour for two years.  Oh
> well, maybe they're slow learners.
>
>   Kirk
>
> --
>
> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
>
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>




  reply	other threads:[~ UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Rodney
 ` Saqib Shaikh
 ` Kirk Wood
   ` Rodney
 ` Terry Cudney
 ` Thomas Ward
 ` Mitchell
   ` Rodney
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Chris Peterson
     ` Mitchell
       ` Geoff Shang
         ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Thomas Ward
         ` Shaun Oliver
     ` Kirk Reiser
       ` Chris Peterson [this message]
         ` HTML email (was Unloading Linux) Kirk Wood
       ` Unloading Linux Amanda Lee
         ` Angelo Sonnesso
           ` Janina Sajka
 ` Pete
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Pete
   ` Kirk Wood
   ` Thomas Ward
     ` Pete

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